New Soviet gypsies : nationality, performance, and selfhood in the early Soviet Union
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書誌事項
New Soviet gypsies : nationality, performance, and selfhood in the early Soviet Union
University of Toronto Press, 2020, c2013
- : paper
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注記
"Reprinted in paperback 2020"--T.p. verso
Bibliography: p. [303]-318
Includes index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
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.
目次
List of Illustrations
A Note on Terminology and Transliteration
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1 Backward Gypsies, Soviet Citizens: The All-Russian Gypsy Union
Chapter 2 A Political Education: Soviet Values and Practical Realities in Gypsy Schools
Chapter 3 Parasites, Pariahs, and Proletarians: Class Struggle And the Forging of a Gypsy Proletariat
Chapter 4 Nomads into Farmers: Romani Activism and the Territorialization of (In)Difference
Chapter 5 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
Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations
Bibliography
Index
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