The Roads of the Roma: A Pen Anthology of Gypsy Writers (PEN American Center's threatened literature series) - Softcover

Ian Hancock

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0900458909 ISBN 13: 9780900458903

Publisher: University of Hertfordshire Press, 1998

Synopsis

This is an international anthology of English translations of Roma poetry and prose. The writings in this text reflect the 30 contributors shared experiences of prejudice, discrimination and persecution, as well as joy in nature and life.

The lives of the contributors are told in brief biographical notes reflecting the many roads followed by the Roma in coming to terms with modern society. In his introduction, Ian Hancock describes the linguistic diversity and culture of the Roma which has helped them preserve their identity over the centuries since they left their original home in India and migrated westward to Europe, the Americas and Australasia.

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Review:

“This anthology of the best Roma poets and writers has been sensitively compiled and ends with biographies of the authors. Excellent translations” --Romano Centro

“The Roads of the Roma has taken me into a new world of great beauty, imagination and mystery. The 'invisible people' step into the light along a path of poetry.” --Antonia Fraser

About the Author:

Ian Hancock was born in the United Kingdom of British and Hungarian Romani descent and has been active in the Romani movement since the 1960s. He is professor of Romani Studies and director of the Romani Archives and Documentation Center at the University of Texas at Austin.

Siobhan Dowd spent twenty years as a human rights campaigner for PEN and Amnesty International before her first novel, A Swift Pure Cry, was published in 2006. She won the Carnegie Medal posthumously in 2009 after her death at the age of forty-seven.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Hertfordshire Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0900458909
• ISBN 13: 9780900458903
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 170
• Editor: Ian Hancock, Siobhan Dowd, Rajko Djuric