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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 autobiograph...
Representations of the Gypsy in the Romantic Period
In early eighteenth-century texts, the gypsy is frequently figured as an amusing rogue; by the Victorian period, it has begun to take on a nostalgic, romanticized form, abandoning sublimity in favour of the bucolic fantasy propagated by George Borrow and the founding members of the Gypsy Lore Society. Representations of the Gypsy in the Romantic Period argues that, in the gap between these two situations, the figure of the gypsy is exploited by Romantic-period writers and artists, often in unexpected ways. Drawing attention to prominent writers (including Wordsworth, Austen, Clare, Cowper and Brontë) as well as those less well-known, Sarah Houghton-Walker examines representations of gypsies...
The Roma and the Holocaust
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, medica...
Children of the Holocaust
Children of the Holocaust contains the papers delivered at a conference to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day 2004, which was held under the auspices of the AHRC Parkes Centre at the University of Southampton. The book addresses questions of representation of the Holocaust by and of children, both in text and image. While the volume opens with a theoretical discussion of how and where to locate the voice of the child in a text, the majority of contributions deal with exemplary texts either by single authors or specific groups of survivors. The testimonies at the heart of these essays were written in different European languages, mainly in German, English and Polish. The authors offer a variety of perspectives, ranging from the literary to the historical and art-critical. With its wide range of examples and approaches to the theme, this volume proposes to be more than a concise introduction to the theme of children of the Holocaust. It documents the breadth of issues of this branch of Holocaust studies, which is still largely waiting to be discovered.
Holocaust Studies
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Nomadic Peoples
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Crossing Over
The present volume brings together selected proceedings of the 2005 Cleveland State University Symposium â oeCrossing Over: Learning to Navigate the Borderlands of Intercultural Encounters.â The collection of essays offers some samples of the complex and potentially infinite array of investigations that the newly expanded field of â ~Border Studiesâ (TM) can add to the academyâ (TM)s scholarly enterprise. The articles collected in this volume demonstrate innovative approaches to comparative explorations of topics in American, Latin-American, European, and Post-Colonial literature as well as Linguistics, History and Education.
1650-1850
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Exile in Ireland
John Hennig (1911-1986) was a German scholar who was forced to flee Nazi Germany in 1939 with his family. They found refuge in Ireland where they stayed until 1956. During that period Hennig made a significant impression on Irish society, as Ireland did on him. He wrote and published extensively and became friends with many of the leading figures of the day. His impressions of Ireland are published for the first time here in the English language, while distinguished scholars and Hennig experts Gisela Holfter and Hermann Rasche provide an account of his life and work. John Hennig was a remarkable man and talented writer and is rightly regarded as the "father" of Irish-German Studies.
