Gypsies and the British Imagination, 1807-1930

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“…Tyto termíny (the other within a domestic other) prosazovali Jonathan Boyarin (1994) a Deborah E. Nord (2006), 17 vnitřní jinakostí je míněno postavení menšin, které žijí ve stejné lokalitě jako většinové obyvatelstvo, ale jsou většinovým obyvatelstvem považované za cizí, radikálně odlišné, exotické. "Vnitřní jinakost" je většinovým obyvatelstvem exotizová-na a démonizována podobně jako jinakost geografi cky vzdálená, například jinakost obyvatel kolonií v případě národů s koloniální minulostí.…”

Adulterous Nations : Family Politics and National Anxiety in the European Novel

“…Regarding both groups of dispossessed peoples, Nord explains that "like many others in the nineteenth century, Eliot paired these two 'others within,' Gypsy and Jew, in her thinking about seemingly cohesive but stateless nations," though she "ultimately saw the Jews as a people tied fortuitously to history and text and, therefore, as worthy creators of a modern state." 74 I would personally offer a slightly more generous reading of Eliot than Nord does when she employs the notion of worthiness and suggest instead that Eliot's political and literary realism led her to focus, in the end, on ethnic groups more likely to achieve the goal of a state. With Jews and Gypsies on opposing ends of that continuum, the Poles fell somewhere in between, as a people historically tied to a land but without the accompanying sacred text.…”

“…86 Her work Strangers to Ourselves, while not addressing Middlemarch directly, explains the attraction between, to use Nord's language, "figurative strangeness" and "foreign origins." 87 In a classic psychoanalytic turn, Kristeva proposes that our fear of the foreigner comes from our deeper fear of facing our own inner foreignness. Her explanation that "the foreigner's friends, aside from bleeding hearts who feel obliged to do good, could only be those who feel foreign to themselves" 88 not only elucidates Dorothea and Will's compatibility in a way that has escaped most of George Eliot's readers and scholars, but the aside regarding "bleeding hearts" fits Mr. Brooke perfectly, specifically his engagement in politics and his apprenticeship of Ladislaw for those purposes.…”

“…90 Ladislaw certainly enjoys the dolce vita in Rome and his "slovenliness"-a term linguistically and historically related, along with its other derivatives, such as slavish, to the ethnic designation Slav 91 -represents an "aping of native behavior." Will's Polish grandfather "gave lessons for his bread" (343), and Casaubon rightfully wishes that his cousin would "choose a profession" (74).…”

People of fire: To the symbolism of the Gypsy myth in Russian and European literature of the 19th century

“…Основополагающую роль в становлении намного более обширной европейской литературной цыганологии сыграла статья Ф. Балденспержа , но только с начала издания «Etudes Tsiganes» тема получила продолжение , а затем, в 1990-2000-х гг., стала модной в европейской филологии на материале разных литератур: испанской [Leblon, 1997], английской Nora, 2008;Houghton-Walker, 2014], французской . Общеевропейский «цыганский текст» рассматривается в монографии , а различные аспекты социального и культурного мифав коллективном сборнике под редакцией S. Moussa [2008].…”