Finding a voice: The Slovak-Roma woman writer in Irish and Czech fiction

IF 0.2 4区社会学 Q4 ANTHROPOLOGY

Romani Studies Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI:10.3828/RS.2020.9

Charles Sabatos

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Abstract

Abstract:The theory of minor literature (based on Kafka's hybrid identity in Prague) is applicable to the complex case of Czech and Slovak-Romani writing, including fictional portrayals of the Roma. The Irish-American writer Colum McCann's Zoli, published in 2006, features a Slovak-Roma woman who becomes an acclaimed poet under the Communist regime, only to be cast out by her community and forced into exile. Two years later, Irena Eliášová (a Roma writer born in Slovakia who lives in the Czech Republic) published her novel Our Settlement (Naše osada), a far more affectionate view of the Roma society of her childhood. Both writers walk an uneasy balance in presenting Slovak-Roma culture from both insider and outsider perspectives. In McCann's case the intention of bringing one of Europe's most misunderstood minorities to anglophone readers struggles to avoid cultural appropriation, while Eliášová's use of multilingualism negotiates the power dynamics between Czech, Slovak, and Romani.

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寻找声音：爱尔兰和捷克小说中的斯洛伐克罗姆女作家

摘要：小文学理论（基于卡夫卡在布拉格的混合身份）适用于捷克和斯洛伐克罗姆人写作的复杂案例，包括对罗姆人的虚构描绘。爱尔兰裔美国作家Colum McCann于2006年出版的《左里》讲述了一位斯洛伐克罗姆妇女在共产党政权下成为一位备受赞誉的诗人，却被她的社区抛弃，被迫流亡海外。两年后，Irena Eliášová（出生于斯洛伐克，现居捷克共和国的罗姆人作家）出版了她的小说《我们的定居点》（Naše osada），这本书对她童年时的罗姆人社会有了更为深情的描述。两位作家在从内部和外部两个角度呈现斯洛伐克罗姆人文化时，都走了一条令人不安的平衡之路。在麦肯的案例中，将欧洲最被误解的少数民族之一带给英语读者的意图很难避免文化挪用，而Eliášová使用多种语言则谈判了捷克语、斯洛伐克语和罗姆语之间的权力动态。

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Romani Studies Social Sciences-Cultural Studies

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0.80

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50.00%

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期刊介绍： Founded in 1888, the Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society was published in four series up to 1982. In 2000, the journal became Romani Studies. On behalf of the Gypsy Lore Society, Romani Studies features articles on many different communities which, regardless of their origins and self-appellations in various languages, have been referred to in English as Gypsies. These communities include the descendants of migrants from the Indian subcontinent which have been considered as falling into three large subdivisions, Dom, Lom, and Rom. The field has also included communities of other origins which practice, or in the past have practiced, a specific type of service nomadism. The journal publishes articles in history, anthropology, ethnography, sociology, linguistics, art, literature, folklore and music, as well as reviews of books and audiovisual materials.