Samudaripen through non-Roma eyes: a reading of the Romani Holocaust in the novels The eighth sin and Fires in the dark

• Autor(a) principal: Pereira, Pilar Castro
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: [e-mail]
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/18791
• topic: Fiction; Gypsy-Roma; Holocaust-Porrajmos/Samudaripen; Memory-post memory; Ficção; Cigano-Romá; Holocausto-Porrajmos/Samudaripen; Memória-pós-memória; Kanfer, Stefan, 1933-2018 – Crítica e interpretação; Kanfer, Stefan, 1933-2018. The eighth sin; Doughty, Louise, 1963- - Crítica e interpretação; Doughty, Louise, 1963-. Fires in dark; Ficção histórica; Ciganos; Guerra Mundial, 1939-1945; Holocausto judeu (1939-1945) na literatura; Memória na literatura; LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LETRAS::LITERATURAS ESTRANGEIRAS MODERNAS

It is our aim to investigate how the novels The Eighth Sin (1978) and Fires in the Dark (2003) discuss the Romani Holocaust during World War II and how the memory and the post memory of the trauma are conveyed by authors Stefan Kanfer and Louise Doughty, respectively, without relying on stereotypes. Romani peoples (commonly known as Gypsies) have been and still are the object of stereotypical portrayals, based on images that predominantly refer to witchcraft, thievery or seduction. On the other hand, far from stereotypes, it is documented that during World War II in Europe between 250,000 to 500,000 Romanies have been executed inside and outside concentration camps, although this is a fact rarely touched upon. We, therefore, intend to examine how these writers have dealt in fiction with this memory gap.