Spring 2020 New Titles

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

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

You can’t outrun it, but you can outsmart it

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.

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?

A beautiful account of the Peony Garden, the University of Michigan's "living museum," that is sure to delight any reader

Utilizes game theory to better understand the relationship between procedural change and partisan conflict in a dysfunctional U.S. Senate

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