{"product_id":"greater-atlanta-black-satire-after-obama-9781496850560","title":"Greater Atlanta: Black Satire After Obama","description":"Contributions by GerShun Avilez, Lola Boorman, Thomas Britt, John Brooks, Phillip James Martinez Cortes, Derek DiMatteo, Tikenya Foster-Singletary, Alexandra Glavanakova, Erica-Brittany Horhn, Matthias Klestil, Abigail Jinju Lee, Derek C. Maus, Danielle Fuentes Morgan, Derek Conrad Murray, Kinohi Nishikawa, Sarah O'Brien, Keyana Parks, and Emily Ruth Rutter \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe seventeen essays in \u003ci\u003eGreater Atlanta: Black Satire after Obama\u003c\/i\u003e collectively argue that in the years after the widespread hopefulness surrounding Barack Obama's election as president waned, Black satire began to reveal a profound shift in US culture. Using the four seasons of the FX television show \u003ci\u003eAtlanta\u003c\/i\u003e (2016-22) as a springboard\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003e the collection examines more than a dozen novels, films, and television shows that together reveal the ways in which Black satire has developed in response to contemporary cultural dynamics. Contributors reveal increased scorn toward self-proclaimed allies in the existential struggle still facing African Americans today. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHaving started its production within a few weeks of Donald Trump's (in)famous escalator ride in 2015, \u003ci\u003eAtlanta\u003c\/i\u003e in many ways is the perfect commentary on the absurdities of the contemporary cultural moment. The series exemplifies a significant development in contemporary Black satire, which largely eschews expectations of reform and instead offers an exasperated self-affirmation that echoes the declaration that Black Lives Matter. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGiven anti-Black racism's lengthy history, overt stimuli for outrage have predictably commanded African American satirists' attention through the years. However, more recent works emphasize the willful ignorance underlying that history. As the volume shows, this has led to the exposure of performative allyship, virtue signaling, slacktivism, and other duplicitous forms of purported support as empty, oblivious gestures that ultimately harm African Americans as grievously as unconcealed bigotry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDerek C. Maus\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of English at SUNY Potsdam and author of \u003ci\u003eUnvarnishing Reality: Subversive Russian and American Cold War Satire. \u003c\/i\u003eHe is also editor of \u003ci\u003eConversations with Colson Whitehead \u003c\/i\u003eand coeditor (with Owen E. Brady) of \u003ci\u003eFinding a Way Home: A Critical Assessment of Walter Mosley's Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e, both published by University Press of Mississippi. \u003cb\u003eJames J. Donahue\u003c\/b\u003e is professor and assistant chair of the Department of English \u0026amp; Communication at SUNY Potsdam. He is author of \u003ci\u003eContemporary Native Fiction: Toward a Narrative Poetics of Survivance\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e Failed Frontiersmen: White Men and Myth in the Post-Sixties American Historical Romance \u003c\/i\u003eand coeditor (with Jennifer Ann Ho and Shaun Morgan) of \u003ci\u003eNarrative, Race, and Ethnicity in the United States.\u003c\/i\u003e Maus and Donahue coedited \u003ci\u003ePost-Soul Satire: Black Identity after Civil Rights, \u003c\/i\u003e published by University Press of Mississippi\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50564065427730,"sku":"9781496850560","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e683ce4f-9dec-4416-93ff-337be069d3d3.jpg?v=1731873612","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/greater-atlanta-black-satire-after-obama-9781496850560","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}