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Download 7 times Source: muse.jhu.edu // Topic: Travelogues File Size: - kb // Total of Page: - Page(s) Last download by jawwadmasood Last download on: 1 month ago Share this info: Short Desciption: postcolonial travelogue.? In ?Richard Wright's Black Power: Colonial. Politics and the Travel Narrative,? S. Shankar perceives parallels ... Content Inside: DISCOVERING POSTCOLONIALISM 701 Discovering Postcolonialism BILL MULLEN University of Texas, San Antonio Richard Wrights Travel Writings: New Reflections. Edited by Virginia Whatley Smith. Jackson, Miss.: University Press of Mississippi, 2001. 237 pages. $40.00 (cloth). RICHARD WRIGHT MAY NOT HAVE INVENTED "POSTCOLONIAL" STUDIES, BUT HE was at the very least a founding member. He first used the term in his 1957 book White Man, Listen!, a gathering of essays in support of anticolonial struggles in Africa, Asia, and the West Indies. The essays emerged from lectures Wright had given across Europe after fleeing Cold War America in 1947. In Paris, his new home, he immediately became a charter member and contributor to Alioune Diops Presence Africaine, the most important pan-African journal in the world. In rapid succession he met and befriended the Senegalese writer Leopold Senghor, the West Indian poet Aime Cesaire, and the Jamaican exComintern member George Padmore. Padmore, along with the young African revolutionary Kwame