Michelle ZerbasampampnbspModern Odysseysampampnbspexplores three major writers in global modernism from the Mediterranean AngloEuropean Britain and the Caribbean whose groundbreaking literary works have never been studied together before. Using language as an instrument of revolution and social change C.ampampnbspP. Cavafy Virginia Woolf and Aim Csaire gave expression to the forms of human experience we now associate with modernity homoeroticism transsexuality and racial consciousness. More specifically Zerba argues that Odyssean tropes of diffusion isolation passage and return give form to works by these writers but in ways that invite us to reconsider and revise the basic premises of reception studies and intellectual history. ampampnbsp Combining close readings of literary texts with the study of interviews essays diaries and letters Zerba advances a revisionary account of how to approach relationships between antiquity and modernity. Instead of frontal encounters with theampampnbspOdysseyampampnbspCavafy Woolf and Csaire indirectlybut no less significantlyengage with Homers epic poem.ampampnbspIn demonstrating how such encounters operateampampnbspModern Odysseysampampnbspexplores issues of race and sexuality that connect antiquity with the modern period. ampampnbsp