Artistic ambassadors [electronic resource] : literary and international representation of the new negro era / Brian Russell Roberts.
Material type: TextPublication details: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2013. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)ISBN:- 9780813933696
- 0813933692
- 810.9/896073 23
- PS153.N5 R57 2013
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.
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