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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