Roma Voices in the German-Speaking World

The Roma are Europe's largest minority, and yet they remain one of the most misunderstood and underrepresented. Scholarship on the Roma in German-speaking countries has focused mostly on the portrayal of “Zigeuner/Gypsies” in literature by non-Roma and on persecution during the Nazi period. Rarely have scholars examined the actual voices of Roma to glean their perspectives on their social interactions and customs. Without such studies the Roma appear passive in the face of their long and troubled history.

With a basis in theories of intersectionality, subalternity, and cultural hybridity, Roma Voices in the German-Speaking World rectifies this image of passivity by analyzing autobiographies, folktales, and novels by Roma, thereby promoting a better understanding of the multifaceted and multifarious cultures alive today in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. In documenting their voices, Roma writers unveil the large extent to which their personal lives, their social interactions with other Roma and non-Roma, and the images they project of their values and traditions are highly influenced by gender and ethnicity.

Acknowledgments
Introduction: “For only together we are strong”
Chapter 1. “I couldn't talk with anyone else about this”: Roma Voicing Gender
Chapter 2. “I am eternally proud to be a Gypsy”: Roma Voicing Ethnicity
Chapter 3. “It was because it wasn't”: Gender and Ethnicity in Folktales, Fairy Tales, and Wonder Tales
Chapter 4. “I live with my deceased”: Trauma, Gender, and Ethnicity in Autobiographies by Ceija, Karl, and Mongo Stojka
Chapter 5. “The emotions are autobiographical, the story is fictional”: Confrontations with Violence in History and a History of Violence in Mariella Mehr's Works
Chapter 6: “It is a kind of life in conflict, between two worlds:”Voices of the Younger Generation
Appendix: Biographies of Romani Writers
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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