Greater Atlanta by Derek C Maus

Greater Atlanta by Derek C Maus

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Argues 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. The book examines more than a dozen novels, films and TV shows that together reveal the ways in which Black satire has developed in response to contemporary cultural dynamics.

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Greater Atlanta by Derek C Maus

Argues that in the years after the widespread hopefulness surrounding Barack Obamas election as president waned, Black satire began to reveal a profound shift in US culture. The book examines more than a dozen novels, films and TV shows that together reveal the ways in which Black satire has developed in response to contemporary cultural dynamics.
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.
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ISBN 13 9781496850560
ISBN 10 1496850564
Titel Greater Atlanta
Autor Derek C Maus
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Bindungsart Paperback
Verlag University Press of Mississippi
Erscheinungsjahr 2024-05-15
Seitenanzahl 277
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