The role of the Romanies : images and counter-images of 'Gypsies'/Romanies in European cultures / edited by Nicholas Saul and Susan Tebbutt.

First published: 2004.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

John Sampson and romani studies in Liverpool / Anthony Sampson -- The gypsy collections at Liverpool / Katharine Hooper -- Belated travelling theory, contemporary wild praxis : a romani perspective on the practical politics of the open end / Ken Lee -- The role of language in mystifying and demystifying gypsy identity / Yaron Matras -- The origins of anti-gypsyism : the outsiders' view of romanies in Western Europe in the fifteenth century / Donald Kenrick -- The concoctors : creating fake romani culture / Ian Hancock -- Modernity, culture, and "gypsies" : is there a meta-scientific method for understanding the representation of "gypsies"? : and do the Dutch really exist? / Thomas Acton -- Half a gypsy : the case of Ezra Jennings in Wilkie Collins's The moonstone (1868) / Nicholas Saul -- Understanding the "other"? : communication, history, and narration in Margriet de Moor's Hertog van Egypte (1996) / Claudia Breger -- From survival to subversion : strategies of self-representation in selected works by Mariella Mehr / Carmel Finnan -- Disproportional representation : romanies and European art / Susan Tebbutt -- A photographer and his "victims" 1934-1964 : reconstructing a shared experience of the romani holocaust / Eve Rosenhaft -- Ritual of memory in constructing the modern identity of Eastern European romanies / Slawomir Kapralski -- "Severity has often enraged but never subdued a gypsy" : the history and making of European romani stereotypes / Colin Clark.