Bury Me Standing - Isabel Fonseca's History of Roma Gypsies
Tradition, Change, and Interrelationships
The word "gypsy" itself conjures images of caravans and dark eyes, sensuality, the devil and thieves. For centuries, the gypsy people have figured prominently in European and American literature and artwork, usually invoking images of color, mystery, or revulsion. It is therefore a curious irony that a people who have inspired centuries of stories have no written language and, consequently, no past of their own.
In Bury Me Standing, Isabel Fonseca embarks on the daunting task of weaving together the history of the Roma - from their origins in India, their flight to Persia, Armenia and Syria and their arrival into Europe in the 14th century. She then examines the next 400 years of slavery in Romania to their current situation as the "untouchables" of Europe.
The Roma have no written history. Their stories are passed down orally, so "the past" usually begins with the early memories of the tribe's oldest living member.
The Roma, Fonseca writes, are a people "living outside history." Among the things that make them unique among diasporic peoples is that they "have no home...the have no dream of a homeland." Until now, the Roma have existed without an overt outside history, all as part of their strategy for the tribe's survival.
For centuries, the survival of the Gypsy tribe lay...
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