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The most accessible and thorough reading of the dual nature of Odysseus

Examining the role of Athenian social memory in understanding the political climate in fourth-century Athens

Reveals the deep roots, poetic structures, and uncommon artistry of rap poetry and performance

Focuses on the cultural practices and representations of “going to the countryside” as a distinctively modern experience in China between 1915 and 1965, bringing the rural back to the central concern of Chinese cultural studies

Reveals theatre’s central role in the formation of bourgeois subjectivity

Twelve chapters, portraying diverse aspects of the contemporary Korean families and showing how they have come to have their current shapes

How do encounters with black literature, music, culture, and thinking invite postwar Japanese authors to re-envision the relationship between race and literature in the wake of world war?

Facilitating vigorous dialogue between Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement and the political theories of Hannah Arendt, The Appearing Demos theorizes a city-based democratic project that allows the city to coexist and share power with state sovereignty.