“Gypsies” in European Literature and Culture

1. Roma in Europe
Ronald Lee

2. Introduction
Valentina Glajar

Part 1. Nationalism, Nature, Property, and “Gypsies” in Nineteenth-and Early Twentieth-Century European Literature

3. Bohemian Philosophers
Philip Landon

4. The Story of Love, Human Conditions, and the “Gypsy” Lifestyle in Józef Ignacy Kraszewski’s Chata za wsią (The Cottage Beyond The Village)
Agnieszka Nance

5. Vsevolod Garshin’s “Medvedi” (“The Bears”)
Marilyn Schwinn Smith

6. “Gypsies” and Property in British Literature
Abby Bardi

Part 2. Porrajmos: Representations of the Romani Holocaust

7. Trauma, Guilt, and Revenge
Valentina Glajar

8. Unveiling the Origin of the Romani Holocaust
Ferdâ Asya

9. The Deportation to Transnistria and the Exoticization of the Roma in Zaharia Stancu’s Novel The Gypsy Tribe
Lucia Cherciu

Part 3. Transnational Romani Roles: Gender and Performance

10. The “Gypsy” Stereotype and the Sexualization of Romani Women
Ian Hancock

11. Performing the Female “Gypsy”
Domnica Radulescu

12. Theater of the underworld
Aimee Kilbane

13. Welcome Pictures, Unwanted Bodies
Dina Iordanova

Keywords: Literature, European Literature, Russian, Soviet, and East European History, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, European History, Anthropology