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The Roads of the Roma

by Ian Hancock, Siobhan Dowd and Rajko Djuric (Eds) - £11.99  University of Hertfordshire Press (1998)
paperback    ISBN 13: 9780900458903 | ISBN 10: 0900458909

From their departure from India in the early middle ages to the present day, the Romani people have faced slavery, pogroms, expulsions, hangings, firebombings and - in Nazi occupied Europe - genocide.
 
In this unique anthology, Romani poets and writers from twenty countries address this devastating legacy. Forty-five poems and prose extracts, most appearing in English for the first time, are arranged alongside an 800-year chronology of repression. What emerges is a portrait of a people struggling to preserve their identity in a hostile world.
 
The Roads of the Roma is published on behalf of the PEN American Centre as a volume in their Threatened Literature Series. In his introduction, Professor Ian Hancock of the University of Texas, himself an English Gypsy, unravels the history of the Roma since they left their original home in India and traces the growth of a written literature out of an oral tradition.

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