Romani literature
Body of literature by Romani people
Romani literature or Roma literature is literature by Romani people. It is composed of both written and oral literature.[1][2] Authors may most likely reside in various countries throughout Europe, the Americas, and Africa and these continents have a long history of being home to Romani people.[3] One aspect of Romani literature are testimonies by survivors of the Romani genocide, that emerged in the 1980s.[4][5]
List of Romani authors
Austria
- Ceija Stojka
Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Muharem Serbezovski
Canada
- Ronald Lee
Czech Republic
Finland
- Veijo Baltzar
- Kiba Lumberg
France
Germany
- Philomena Franz
- Otto Rosenberg
Hungary
Poland
Serbia
- Vera Kurtić
- Jovan Nikolić
Slovakia
Sweden
- Katarina Taikon
United Kingdom
United States
Further reading
Books
- Roman, Raluca Bianca; Zahova, Sofiya; Marinov, Aleksandar (2021). Roma Writings: Romani Literature and Press in Central, South-Eastern and Eastern Europe from the 19th Century until World War II. Brill. ISBN 9783506705204. OCLC 1274165213.
- Hancock, Ian; Dowd, Siobhan; Djurić, Rajko (October 1, 1998). The Roads of the Roma: a PEN anthology of Gypsy writers. University of Hertfordshire Press. ISBN 9780900458903. OCLC 42214799.
- Tahirović-Sijerčić, Hedina; Levine-Rasky, Cynthia, eds. (2017). A Romani Women's Anthology: Spectrum of the Blue Water. Inanna Publications and Education Inc. ISBN 978-1-77133-401-3. OCLC 1047745299.
Articles
- "Literature". RomArchive.
- Chech, Petra. "Oral Literature". RomArchive.
- Council of Europe. "Factsheets on Romani Literature".
- "Writers & Poets". Romani Herstory.
See also
- Romani studies
- Anti-Romani sentiment
- Category:Romani literature
- Category:Romani writers
References
- ^ Chech, Petra. "Oral Literature". RomArchive.
- ^ Council of Europe. "Factsheets on Romani Literature".
- ^ Fotta, Martin. "Romani Atlantic: Transcontinental Logic of Ethno-Racial Identities". Institute of Ethnology: Czech Academy of Sciences.
- ^ French, Lorely; Hertrampf, Marina Ortrud M. (2023-11-20). Approaches to a “new" World Literature: Romani Literature(s) as (re-)writing and self-empowerment. Akademische Verlagsgemeinschaft München AVM. pp. 147–148. ISBN 978-3-95477-157-8.
- ^ Baer, Elizabeth Roberts; Goldenberg, Myrna (2003). Experience and Expression: Women, the Nazis, and the Holocaust. Wayne State University Press. pp. 53–54. ISBN 978-0-8143-3063-0.