Greater Atlanta

Derek C. Maus is professor of English at SUNY Potsdam and author of Unvarnishing Reality: Subversive Russian and American Cold War Satire. He is also editor of Conversations with Colson Whitehead and coeditor (with Owen E. Brady) of Finding a Way Home: A Critical Assessment of Walter Mosley's Fiction, both published by University Press of Mississippi. James J. Donahue is professor and assistant chair of the Department of English & Communication at SUNY Potsdam. He is author of Contemporary Native Fiction: Toward a Narrative Poetics of Survivance and Failed Frontiersmen: White Men and Myth in the Post-Sixties American Historical Romance and coeditor (with Jennifer Ann Ho and Shaun Morgan) of Narrative, Race, and Ethnicity in the United States. Maus and Donahue coedited Post-Soul Satire: Black Identity after Civil Rights, published by University Press of Mississippi.

"I've Done Told You, These Backhoes Ain't Loyal!": Atlanta and the State of Black Satire after Obama Derek C. Maus Downtown Atlanta On the Perils of Enjoying One's Wound: Atlanta and Contemporary African American Satire Derek Conrad Murray Whispering Sexuality: Queer Erasure and Black Satirical Disruption GerShun Avilez Satirizing Satire Itself: Atlanta's Appropriation Aesthetic and the Blackening of US Civil Society John Brooks Awkwardness and Black Millennial Satire in Insecure and Atlanta Erica-Brittney Horhn and Derek C. Maus Forsyth County White (Al)lies: Eating the Other in Atlanta and Jordan Peele's Get Out Emily Ruth Rutter Racial Self-Identification in Atlanta and Danzy Senna's New People Alexandra Glavanakova "Know Thyself": Education and Identity Fashioning in Atlanta and Dear White People Derek DiMatteo Lake Lanier Canines and Tricksters in Atlanta Matthias Klestil "That's You": Reflections on Human-Animal Doublings in Atlanta's Televisual Satire Sarah O'Brien DeKalb County "You Chose Black": Atlanta's Gendered Politics of Black Respectability and Representation Keyana Parks Atlanta and the Instability of Racial Performance Tikenya Foster-Singletary "What the Hell Is Muckin'?": Mistranslation and Linguistic Pessimism in Atlanta Lola Boorman Ironic Minstrelsies of Affect in Atlanta Phillip James Martinez Cortes "It's a Simulation, Van": Atlanta, The Twilight Zone, and the Uncanniness of Black Womanhood Danielle Fuentes Morgan East Point/College Park Becoming Inhuman: Donald Glover, Hiro Murai, and the Self-Alienation of Celebrity Kinohi Nishikawa Streets on Locke: The Volition of Atlanta Thomas Britt Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport Playing on the Border: Racial Ambiguity, Passing, and Possibility in Atlanta and Charles Yu's Interior Chinatown Abigail Jinju Lee Composite Works Cited About the Contributors Index

The erudite analysis unpacks the complex ideas embedded in the series's surreal vision of Atlanta. This will enhance fans' appreciation of the show. (Publishers Weekly) Greater Atlanta is the collection we need right now. It is far more than the first extended critical study of Atlanta, one of the best television shows of our era. This volume gathers the sharpest minds interested in African American culture and satire to examine the many complexities in Black lives since the Obama presidency. A sequel to Post-Soul Satire: Black Identity after Civil Rights, in many ways Greater Atlanta is even more essential. No scholar of contemporary African American culture should be without it. - Darryl Dickson-Carr, professor of English at Southern Methodist University