Artistic ambassadors : literary and international representation of the new negro era /

Artistic ambassadors : literary and international representation of the new negro era / Brian Russell Roberts.

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During the first generation of black participation in U.S. diplomacy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a vibrant community of African American writers and cultural figures worked as U.S. representatives abroad. Through the literary and diplomatic dossiers of figures such as Frede...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Roberts, Brian Russell
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2013.
Subjects:
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
African American diplomats.
African Americans > Intellectual life > 19th century.
African Americans > Intellectual life > 20th century.
African Americans > Intellectual life.
American literature > African American authors.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • 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 and presence: Angelina Weld Grimke's Rachel
  • Diplomats but ersatz: the hip-to-matic Pan-Africanism of 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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