The Roma Community: Between Proscription and ssertion of Historic Consciousness
The Roma Community: Between Proscription and ssertion of Historic Consciousness

Summary/Abstract: The history of Roma was asserted as soon as social awareness of the ethnic group has been raised. The rationalism,cosmopolitanism and the peculiarity of the 18th and 19th centuries ensured a major support with this regard. The interest in the Roma was generated by the discovery of the Orient which fascinated the Western World due to its ethnic and cultural diversity. Thus, the cosmopolitanism and peculiarity of this alternate world, the closeness of the "noble savage" have created a topos in the literary world.

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