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Auteur(s) : O'Keeffe, Brigid (1979-....)
Titre(s) : New Soviet gypsies [Texte imprimé] : nationality, performance, and selfhood in the early Soviet Union / Brigid O'Keeffe
Publication : Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, cop. 2013
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XVI-328 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm
Comprend : Backward Gypsies, Soviet Citizens: The All-Russian Gypsy Union ; A Political Education:
Soviet Values and Practical Realities in Gypsy Schools ; Parasites, Pariahs, and
Proletarians: Class Struggle And the Forging of a Gypsy Proletariat ; Nomads into
Farmers: Romani Activism and the Territorialization of (In)Difference ; Pornography
or Authenticity? Performing Gypsiness on the Soviet Stage ; Epilogue and Conclusion:
"Am I a Gypsy or Not a Gypsy?": Nationality and the Performance of Soviet Selfhood.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-318) and index
"As perceived icons of indifferent marginality, disorder, indolence, and parasitism,
"Gypsies" threatened the Bolsheviks' ideal of New Soviet Men and Women. The early
Soviet state feared that its Romani population suffered from an extraordinary and
potentially insurmountable cultural "backwardness," and sought to sovietize Roma through
a range of nation-building projects. Yet as Brigid O'Keeffe shows in this book, Roma
actively engaged with Bolshevik nationality policies, thereby assimilating Soviet
culture, social customs, and economic relations. Roma proved the primary agents in
the refashioning of so-called "backwards Gypsies" into conscious Soviet citizens.
New Soviet Gypsies provides a unique history of Roma, an overwhelmingly understudied
and misunderstood diasporic people, by focusing on their social and political lives
in the early Soviet Union. O'Keeffe illustrates how Roma mobilized and performed "Gypsiness"
as a means of advancing themselves socially, culturally, and economically as Soviet
citizens. Exploring the intersection between nationality, performance, and self-fashioning,
O'Keeffe shows that Roma not only defy easy typecasting, but also deserve study as
agents of history."--Publisher's website
Sujet(s) : Tsiganes -- Conditions sociales -- URSS -- 1900-1945
Tsiganes -- Politique et gouvernement -- URSS -- 1900-1945
Tsiganes -- Moeurs et coutumes -- URSS -- 1900-1945
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781442646506 (cloth) (acid-free paper). - ISBN 1442646500 (cloth) (acid-free
paper)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb43805091m
Notice n° :
FRBNF43805091
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