Why Donald Glover's Atlanta Feels So Weird

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The world of Donald Glover's Atlanta feels... off. What's going on?

Citations:
Baraka, Amiri. “Henry Dumas: Afro-Surreal Expressionist” Black American Literature Forum, Vol. 22, No. 2, Henry Dumas Issue (Summer, 1988)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2904491

Miller, D. Scot. “Call It Afro-Surreal.” San Francisco Bay Guardian, 19 May 2009, https://sfbgarchive.48hills.org/sfbgarchive/2009/05/19/call-it-afro-surreal/

Mulkerrins, Jane. "Donald Glover on the Return of Atlanta: ‘I’m Not Making a TV show, I Am Making an Experience’." The Guardian, Jun 23, 2018, https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/jun/23/donald-glover-atlanta-robbin-season

Bakare, Lanre. "From Beyoncé to Sorry to Bother You: The New Age of Afro-Surrealism." The Guardian, Dec 06, 2018,
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/dec/06/afro-surrealism-black-artists-racist-society

Special thanks to D. Scot Miller for the interview.

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