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

Title
Artistic ambassadors : literary and international representation of the new negro era / Brian Russell Roberts.
Author
Roberts, Brian Russell.
Publication
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2013.

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Description
xii, 231 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-222) and index.
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.
Call Number
Sc E 13-341
ISBN
  • 9780813933672 (hbk. : acid-free paper)
  • 0813933676 (hbk. : acid-free paper)
  • 9780813933689 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
  • 0813933684 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
  • 9780813933696 (ebk.)
  • 0813933692 (ebk.)
LCCN
2012032767
OCLC
808810664
Author
Roberts, Brian Russell.
Title
Artistic ambassadors : literary and international representation of the new negro era / Brian Russell Roberts.
Imprint
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2013.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-222) and index.
Research Call Number
Sc E 13-341
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