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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roberts, Brian Russell.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

African American diplomats.

African Americans--Intellectual life--19th century.

African Americans.

African Americans--Intellectual life--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (245 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

appointments of its first two black secretaries of state and the election of its first black president, this complex representational legacy has continued relevance to our understanding of current American internationalism.

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 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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781283902342

1283902346

9780813933696

0813933692

OCLC:

843075554