The role of the Romanies : images and counter-images of "Gypsies"/Romanies in European cultures /

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Imprint:Liverpool, Eng. : Liverpool University Press, 2004.
Description:xi, 258 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5602274
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Varying Form of Title:Images and counter-images of "Gypsies"/Romanies in European cultures
Other authors / contributors:Saul, Nicholas.
Tebbutt, Susan.
ISBN:0853236798
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and an index.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction The Role of the Romanies: Images and Counter-Images
  • References
  • Part I. Romany Studies and Its Parameters
  • John Sampson and Romani Studies in Liverpool
  • References
  • The Gypsy Collections at Liverpool
  • References
  • Note
  • Belated Travelling Theory, Contemporary Wild Praxis: a Romani Perspective on the Practical Politics of the Open End
  • References
  • Part II. Constructions and Concoctions of Romany Culture
  • The Role of Language in Mystifying and Demystifying Gypsy Identity
  • References
  • The Origins of Anti-Gypsyism: the Outsiders' View of Romanies in Western Europe in the Fifteenth Century
  • References
  • Acknowledgements
  • The Concoctors: Creating Fake Romani Culture
  • References
  • Modernity, Culture and 'gypsies': is There a Meta-Scientific Method for Understanding the Representation of 'gypsies'? and Do the Dutch Really Exist?
  • References
  • Part III. Orientalism and Gender Issues in Literature
  • Half a Gypsy: the Case of Ezra Jennings in Wilkie Collins's
  • References
  • Understanding the 'other'? Communication, History and Narration in Margriet de Moor's Hertog Van Egypte (1996)
  • References
  • From Survival to Subversion: Strategies of Self-Representation in Selected Works by Mariella Mehr
  • References
  • Part IV. Memory, Records and the Romany Experience
  • Disproportional Representation: Romanies and European Art
  • References
  • A Photographer and His 'victims' 1934-1964: Reconstructing a Shared Experience of the Romani Holocaust
  • References
  • Ritual of Memory in Constructing the Modern Identity of Eastern European Romanies
  • References
  • 'severity Has Often Enraged but Never Subdued a Gipsy': the History and Making of European Romani Stereotypes
  • References
  • Index