The first full, comprehensive account of the cultural
representation of the Roma in European history This remarkable book
describes a dark side of European history: the rejection of the
Roma from their initial arrival in the late Middle Ages to the
present day. To Europeans, the Roma appeared to be in complete
contradiction with their own culture, because of their mysterious
origins, unknown language and way of life. As representatives of an
oral culture, for centuries the Roma have left virtually no written
records of their own. Their history has been conveyed to us almost
exclusively through the distorted images that European cultures
project. Persecuted and shunned, the Roma nonetheless spread out
across the continent and became an important, indeed indispensable
element in the European imagination. It is impossible to conceive
of the culture of Spain, southern France and much of Central Europe
without this pervasive Romani influence. Europe and the Roma
brilliantly describes the 'fascination and fear' which have marked
Europeans' response to the Romani presence. Countless composers,
artists and writers have responded to Romani culture and to
fantasies thereof. Their projections onto a group whose illiteracy
and marginalization gave it so little direct voice of its own have
always been a very uneasy mixture of the inspired, the patronizing
and the frighteningly ignorant. The book also shows the link
between cultural violence, social discrimination and racist
policies that paved the way for the genocide of the Roma.
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