''Gypsies'' in European Literature and Culture

This collection investigates portrayals of "Gypsies" across British. French, Italian, German. Finnish, Polish, Romanian, Serbian, and Russian cultures in canonical and nationally acclaimed texts. Holocaust survivor literature, films, and other accounts. This book exposes tensions between imagined "Gypsies" and real Romanies and uncovers a kaleidoscope of Romani images that speak of alterity, exoticization, and idealization, as well as enmity, persecution, and human rights violations.