In Episode 6 of Season 1 of Donald Glover’s Atlanta, titled “Value”, Jayde (Aubin Wise) and Vanessa Marks (Zazie Beetz) are seated at the table of an upscale Thai restaurant in Atlanta. The two are clearly friends, and the meal is a reunion between the two before Jayde takes a vacation to London with an…
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Color between Art: A Critique of Glover’s in “Juneteenth”
In the ninth episode of the first season of Atlanta (created, written, and produced by Donald Glover), titled “Juneteenth”, Earnest “Earn” Marks (Donald Glover), Vanessa Marks (Zazie Beets), and Lisa (Joan Q. Scott), a playwright, are seated together in a casual living room setting in the house of Craig (Rick Holmes) and Monique (Cassandra Freedman). …
The City of Atlanta: Personified in Time
(A continuation of my post called “The City of Atlanta: Both ‘North’ and ‘South’”) In terms of time, DuBois anchors Atlanta in history as “peering out from the shadows of the past into the promise of the future.” “Peering” personifies the city in a way that sets up DuBois’ comparison with the figure Atalanta later…
The City of Atlanta: Both “North” and “South”
On page 75, DuBois introduces the fifth chapter “Of the Wings of Atalanta” – in which he symbolically compares the city of Atlanta, Georgia, with the mythical Greek huntress Atalanta – by poetically placing the city in space. He characterizes Atlanta as “south of the North, yet north of the South.” This clause is an…
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