Artistic ambassadors : literary and international representation of the New Negro era / Brian Russell Roberts.
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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2013
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : the politics of New Negro literary culture and the culture of US international politics
- 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 GrimkeĢ'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.