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This book investigates how literary and more general conceptions of French colonialism were influenced by an awareness of how rival European powers had negotiated conquest and disengagement from empire. It illustrates how perceived loss and nostalgia for imperial pasts helped shape the French colonial enterprise across its various manifestations.

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This volume represents a first in its analysis of historical trends in the humor of eight Western countries: Australia, Belgium, France, Great Britain, Israel, Italy, the United States, and Yugoslavia.

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From the earliest times, Native Americans developed a strong oral tradition. In the shift towards literacy, they began telling their stories through the medium of the written word. This text provides coverage of literature written by Native Americans from the 18th century to 1998.

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Offers students, writers and serious fans a window to the best and best known writers in native American literature.

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This book analyzes Native-authored detective fiction to consider how Native authors use a popular literary genre to make social, cultural, and political critiques by shedding light on settler-colonial crimes, arguing for strengthened tribal sovereignty, and illustrating the resilience of Indigenous peoples.

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This book analyzes Native-authored detective fiction to consider how Native authors use a popular literary genre to make social, cultural, and political critiques by shedding light on settler-colonial crimes, arguing for strengthened tribal sovereignty, and illustrating the resilience of Indigenous peoples.

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Naturalism was the dominant movement in European literary culture during the second half of the 19th century. This book focuses on the poetics, thematics and reception of naturalism, and stresses modern methods of literary analysis.

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This book provides the most complete and definitive study of Roman comedy. Originally published in 1952. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these im

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This work examines three major strands of the work Eugenio Barba, a leading theatre artist and theorist, working across cultures: his research at the International School of Theatre Anthropology; his use of performance as a means of exchange, and his relationship with Latin America.

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By juxtaposing novels from different cultures, this text highlights the ways in which women renegotiate their identities at different ages and writers reconfigure novelistic forms. It discusses works by such authors as Margaret Atwood, Nadine Gordimer, Keri Hulme and Doris Lessing.

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Negro-African literature in French is one of a number of appellations most commonly used to describe a body of literary texts written in French by Africans and those of African descent from roughly 1920 onward.

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Neo-Gothic Narratives defines and theorises what mobilises the employment of the Gothic to speak to our own times.

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Neo-Gothic Narratives defines and theorises what mobilises the employment of the Gothic to speak to our own times.

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Examining the global dimensions of Neo-Victorianism, this book explores how the appropriation of Victorian images in contemporary literature and culture has emerged as a critical response to the crises of decolonization and Imperial collapse. It also explores the phenomenon by reading a range of popular and literary Anglophone neo-Victorian texts.

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New Criticism and Pedagogical Directions for Contemporary Black Women Writers spans the contemporary era into the AfroFuture. It begins with Ann Petry, who has been forcibly mashed into masculinized critical paradigms, and ends by introducing audiences to Black speculative and Science Fiction writers.

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Holloway, a specialist in Black studies and psycholinguistics, and Demetrakopoulos, whose academic interests include women's studies and Jungian psychology, weave their multidisciplinary interests and divergent experience into an integrated study of Toni Morrison's novels.