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

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Austria

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Bosnia and Herzegovina

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Canada

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Czech Republic

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Finland

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France

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Germany

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Hungary

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Poland

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Serbia

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Slovakia

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Sweden

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United Kingdom

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United States

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Further reading

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Books

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  • 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

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ Chech, Petra. "Oral Literature". RomArchive.
  2. ^ Council of Europe. "Factsheets on Romani Literature".
  3. ^ Fotta, Martin. "Romani Atlantic: Transcontinental Logic of Ethno-Racial Identities". Institute of Ethnology: Czech Academy of Sciences.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ 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.