TY - BOOK AU - Roberts,Brian Russell ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Artistic ambassadors: literary and international representation of the new negro era AV - PS153.N5 R57 2013eb U1 - 810.9/896073 23 PY - 2013/// CY - Charlottesville PB - University of Virginia Press KW - American literature KW - African American authors KW - History and criticism KW - African American diplomats KW - African Americans KW - Intellectual life KW - 19th century KW - 20th century KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/zegu/Doc?id=10641014 ER -