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“Gypsies” in European Literature and CultureVsevolod Garshin’s “Medvedi” (“The Bears”)

“Gypsies” in European Literature and Culture: Vsevolod Garshin’s “Medvedi” (“The Bears”) [The author of this 1934 image, a Brooklyn native, had just returned from a year in Cologne, Germany, an eye-opening year for a precocious young woman, alive to adventure, with a thirst for experience, and a witness to early Nazi rallies. Her portrait is drawn from a sketch positing the clearly demarcated ethnic neighborhoods of Brooklyn’s slums as a microcosm of “the great social problems of the world—nationalism, economic rivalry, petty jealousies.” It crystallizes two related notions—nationality and borders—at the base of European Gypsy experience, in actuality and as a literary trope.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

“Gypsies” in European Literature and CultureVsevolod Garshin’s “Medvedi” (“The Bears”)

Part of the Studies in European Culture and History Book Series
Editors: Glajar, Valentina; Radulescu, Domnica
Smith, Marilyn Schwinn
“Gypsies” in European Literature and Culture — Oct 14, 2015
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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2008
ISBN
978-1-349-37154-9
Pages
85 –104
DOI
10.1057/9780230611634_5
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Abstract

[The author of this 1934 image, a Brooklyn native, had just returned from a year in Cologne, Germany, an eye-opening year for a precocious young woman, alive to adventure, with a thirst for experience, and a witness to early Nazi rallies. Her portrait is drawn from a sketch positing the clearly demarcated ethnic neighborhoods of Brooklyn’s slums as a microcosm of “the great social problems of the world—nationalism, economic rivalry, petty jealousies.” It crystallizes two related notions—nationality and borders—at the base of European Gypsy experience, in actuality and as a literary trope.]

Published: Oct 14, 2015

Keywords: Russian Culture; Russian History; Nomadic People; Ethnic Neighborhood; Nationalist Discourse

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