Description: An engaging study of contemporary Black satire through the lens of a critically acclaimed television series
Brief description: 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. He is also coeditor (with Jennifer Ann Ho and Shaun Morgan) of Narrative, Race, and Ethnicity in the United States and (with Derek C. Maus) of Post-Soul Satire: Black Identity after Civil Rights, the latter published by University Press of Mississippi.
Review Quotes: 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"