Artistic ambassadors : literary and international representation of the New Negro era /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Roberts, Brian Russell
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2013
Subjects:
1800-1999
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
African American diplomats.
African Americans > Intellectual life > 19th century.
African Americans > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Diplomates noirs américains.
Noirs américains > Vie intellectuelle > 19e siècle.
Noirs américains > Vie intellectuelle > 20e siècle.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > African American.
African American diplomats
African Americans > Intellectual life
American literature > African American authors
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
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 Grimké'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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