The Exulant Coming out from Isolation: Re-reading in Various Culturalistic Paradigms. The Gypsy Studies from Great Britain and Germany in the 18-19 C.
The Exulant Coming out from Isolation: Re-reading in Various Culturalistic Paradigms. The Gypsy Studies from Great Britain and Germany in the 18-19 C.

Summary/Abstract: Reconstituting Gypsy world was more assiduously attempted during the 18th and 20th centuries. An unlettered culture like the Gypsy one was dedicated a vast literature, with its own journals and autonomy betraying from the beginning a transdisciplinary propensity, despite a highly mythologization or ideologization tendency. The present essay review intends to comparatively follow the development of the “Gypsy studies” in Britain and Germany. My main objective is to unveil the importance of the cultural and political framework for the discourses promoted within the literary and scientific productions coming out during the aforementioned epoch. As I am mostly interested in the process of “Wissensproduktion” of the external knowing agents I will focus on the discursive practices understood in a Foucauldian and Saidian sense. Thanks to the penetrating and vast readability of the literary productions (true carriers of stereotypes and vulgarizing channels of the scientific productions) printed during the 19th century they will constitute the basis of the following analyses.

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