Romani Blood

Romani Blood
Author: Frances Trilone
Publisher:
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2018-07-28
Genre:
ISBN: 9781732499805

Seventeen-year-old Sienna doesn't like her new home in Woodlake, Michigan. The moment she enters the small Romani community, she has to follow their strict rules - No boys. No school. No cell phones.Forced to work at the café, Sienna meets Kaleb and her world changes forever. He's unlike anyone she has ever met. He's dangerous, forbidden, and a shapeshifter. She quickly realizes that falling in love with the wrong guy can be riskier than she'd ever imagined.With a tourist missing and a killer on the loose, the Town Council and Romani Elders agree to join forces with the Norwood wolves. But when the evidence leads straight to Kaleb and more secrets are exposed, Sienna must choose . . .Loyalty to her Romani blood?Or love for the enemy, a Norwood wolf?Romani Blood is the first book in the Romani Curse Series. If you love everything paranormal- wolves, vampires, witches, and magic, then you'll love reading this series!

We are the Romani People

We are the Romani People
Author: Ian F. Hancock
Publisher: Univ of Hertfordshire Press
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2002
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781902806198

The author, himself a Romani, speaks directly to the gadze (non-Gypsy) reader about his people, their history since leaving India one thousand years ago and their rejection and exclusion from society in the countries where they settled, their health, food, culture and society.

Romani Routes

Romani Routes
Author: Carol Silverman
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 437
Release: 2012-05-24
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0195300947

Now that the political and economic plight of European Roma and the popularity of their music are objects of international attention, Romani Routes provides a timely and insightful view into Romani communities both in their home countries and in the diaspora. Over the past two decades, a steady stream of recordings, videos, feature films, festivals, and concerts has presented the music of Balkan Gypsies, or Roma, to Western audiences, who have greeted them with exceptional enthusiasm. Yet, as author Carol Silverman notes, Roma are revered as musicians and reviled as people. In this book, Silverman introduces readers to the people and cultures who produce this music, offering a sensitive and incisive analysis of how Romani musicians address the challenges of discrimination. Focusing on southeastern Europe then moving to the diaspora, her book examines the music within Romani communities, the lives and careers of outstanding musicians, and the marketing of music in the electronic media and "world music" concert circuit. Silverman touches on the way that the Roma exemplify many qualities -- adaptability, cultural hybridity, transnationalism--that are taken to characterize late modern experience. And rather than just celebrating these qualities, she presents the musicians as complicated, pragmatic individuals who work creatively within the many constraints that inform their lives.

Romani

Romani
Author: Yaron Matras
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2002-06-06
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1139433245

Romani is a language of Indo-Aryan origin which is spoken in Europe by the people known as 'Gypsies' (who usually refer to themselves as Rom). There are upwards of 3.5 million speakers, and their language has attracted increasing interest both from scholars and from policy-makers in governments and other organizations during the past ten years. This 2002 book is the first comprehensive overview in English of Romani. It provides a historical linguistic introduction to the structures of Romani and its dialects, as well as surveying the phonology, morphology, syntactic typology and patterns of grammatical borrowing in the language. This book provides an essential reference for anyone interested in this fascinating language.

Romani Versions

Romani Versions
Author: Donald MacAlister
Publisher:
Total Pages: 72
Release: 1928
Genre: Romani poetry
ISBN:

Roma Voices in the German-Speaking World

Roma Voices in the German-Speaking World
Author: Lorely French
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2015-05-21
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1501302817

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. Anthropological and historical studies have frequently portrayed Romani groups as displaying a patriarchal social structure with highly demarcated roles for men and women. In contrast, the significant parts that both men and women play in disseminating autobiographical, fictional, and historical narratives challenge this ubiquitous notion of largely patriarchal Romani cultures. The insights that both sexes provide on the relationship between gender and ethnicity in the context of cultural taboos, norms, and expectations unveil the complexities and diversities inherent in any minority group and its relationship to the dominant society.

Gypsies and the British Imagination, 1807-1930

Gypsies and the British Imagination, 1807-1930
Author: Deborah Epstein Nord
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2006
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0231137044

Deborah Epstein Nord traces the nearly ubiquitous British preoccupation with Gypsies in imaginative works by John Clare, Walter Scott, William Wordsworth, George Eliot, Arthur Conan Doyle, and D. H. Lawrence. She also exhumes lesser-known literary, ethnographic, and historical texts, exploring the fascinating histories of the nomadic writer George Borrow, the Gypsy Lore Society, Dora Yates, and other rarely examined figures and institutions. These textual representations are characterized by a tension between Gypsies as an alien, often despised "race" and the psychic or aesthetic desire to dissolve the boundary between English and Gypsy worlds. Nord suggests that, by the beginning of the twentieth century, romantic identification with Gypsies hardened into caricature and served to obscure the realities of Gypsy life and history. This phenomenon is reflected most famously in The Virgin and the Gipsy, in which D. H. Lawrence both exploits and criticizes the myth of Gypsies' unfettered sensuality, closeness to nature, and opposition to the oppressive strictures of modern life.

The Knight of Castle Kildare

The Knight of Castle Kildare
Author: Erin Moira O'Hara
Publisher: Erin Moira O'Hara
Total Pages: 118
Release: 2021-04-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Immortalized in time, Sir Caleb abruptly awakens to discover it’s the 21st century. Nothing is as it should be. His beloved castle is now titled to a desirable maiden, who wears pants. To vanquish his curse, he must adhere to certain protocols, which will draw forth a killer. Caleb would rather die than face eternity trapped in a painting, yet to end the curse, he will lose the love of his life. Kate Manning has always been fascinated by Sir Caleb; a 16th century knight, whose portrait hangs in Castle Kildare. As the new owner of the supposedly haunted castle, Kate finds herself irresistibly drawn to a life-size portrait of the Knight, until the unbelievable happens. Now she will do whatever it takes to protect the man of her heart.

The Roma and the Holocaust

The Roma and the Holocaust
Author: María Sierra
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2024-04-18
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1350333107

Half a million European Roma were exterminated by the Nazi regime; many more were subjected to a policy of racial discrimination similar to that suffered by the Jewish people. However, the persecution and torment of Roma in Hitler's Europe has little presence in the history books. The Roma and the Holocaust places the Roma genocide in the context of the widespread violence of the Second World War, while offering an explanation that places it within a broader trajectory of anti-Roma persecution in modern societies. The book explores the separation and destruction of families, the sterilisation of adults and children, the plunder of property and deprivation of livelihoods, slave labour, medical experiments, the horror of extermination camps and the mass murder that the Romani people were subjected to. María Sierra uses the first section of the book to provide a much-needed critical overview and synthesis of the fragmented research and scholarship in the area that has been conducted in various languages. In the second section, Sierra shines a light the autobiographical accounts of several Roma survivors of the Nazi genocide in order for the voices of the victims who have claimed recognition and rights for the Roma people to be heard. This journey through the memories of Philomena Franz, Ceija Stojka, Lily Van Angeren, Otto Rosenberg, Walter Winter and Ewald Hanstein, in addition to other testimonies, is contextualized within the framework of other Holocaust survivors' memoirs and has been approached from a history of emotions perspective. With the Romani people having been denied recognition as victims of Nazism after the end of the war, this book crucially helps to bring about agency for the survivors, supporting their struggle for the right to memory in the process.