Invention of the Trickster
Celia Donert: Roma in Europe, 2 November 2023
Europe and the Roma: A History of Fascination and Fear
by Klaus-Michael Bogdal, translated by Jefferson Chase.
Allen Lane, 588 pp., £40, July,978 0 241 51902 8 Show More
by Klaus-Michael Bogdal, translated by Jefferson Chase.
Allen Lane, 588 pp., £40, July,
“... reunification was accompanied by a widespread fascination with ‘Gypsies’ in popular culture. Klaus-Michael Bogdal, a professor of German literature at the University of Bielefeld at the time of the riots, was struck by the contradiction. In the early 1990s, Germans were taking up flamenco lessons. The French-Gitano band Gipsy Kings was hitting the ... ”
