Artistic ambassadors
Roberts, Brian Russell.
Artistic ambassadors literary and international representation of the new negro era / [electronic resource] : Brian Russell Roberts. - Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2013. - 1 online resource (240 p.)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Negro beat: "distinguished colored men" and their representative characters -- Passing into diplomacy: US Consul James Weldon Johnson and the autobiography of an ex-colored man -- Diplomatic and modern representations: George Washington Ellis, Henry Francis Downing, and the myth of Africa -- Metonymies of absence andpresence: Angelina Weld Grimke's Rachel -- Diplomats but ersatz: the hip-to-matic Pan-Africanismof W. E. B. Du Bois and Ida Gibbs Hunt -- The practice of hip-to-macy in the age of public diplomacy: Richard Wright's Indonesian travels -- Epilogue: hipster diplomacy's fall and Barack Obama's forms of things unknown.
9780813933696 0813933692
African Americans--Intellectual life--20th century.
African Americans--Intellectual life--19th century.
African American diplomats.
American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
Electronic books.
PS153.N5 / R57 2013
810.9/896073
Artistic ambassadors literary and international representation of the new negro era / [electronic resource] : Brian Russell Roberts. - Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2013. - 1 online resource (240 p.)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Negro beat: "distinguished colored men" and their representative characters -- Passing into diplomacy: US Consul James Weldon Johnson and the autobiography of an ex-colored man -- Diplomatic and modern representations: George Washington Ellis, Henry Francis Downing, and the myth of Africa -- Metonymies of absence andpresence: Angelina Weld Grimke's Rachel -- Diplomats but ersatz: the hip-to-matic Pan-Africanismof W. E. B. Du Bois and Ida Gibbs Hunt -- The practice of hip-to-macy in the age of public diplomacy: Richard Wright's Indonesian travels -- Epilogue: hipster diplomacy's fall and Barack Obama's forms of things unknown.
9780813933696 0813933692
African Americans--Intellectual life--20th century.
African Americans--Intellectual life--19th century.
African American diplomats.
American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
Electronic books.
PS153.N5 / R57 2013
810.9/896073