The Gypsy Woman

Representations in Literature and Visual Culture

Jodie Matthews (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

272 Seiten

2020
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-15066-9 (ISBN)

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The exotic and dangerous stereotype of the Gypsy woman formed in 19th-century literature and visual culture remains alive today. These contemporary cliches about Gypsy culture - both negative and romanticised - have a long history. In The Gypsy Woman, Jodie Matthews analyses why the representation of female Gypsy figures in print, painting, television series such as Big Fat Gypsy Weddings and social media sites like Instagram matters so much. Some of these images have been so damaging that they require legal regulation, but Matthews claims that supposedly positive portrayals are just as detrimental by reiterating the same story about Gypsies that have been told since the 19th century. Her study makes this book a highly relevant resource for students, teachers and researchers working in literary, cultural, gender and Romani studies.

Jodie Matthews is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Huddersfield, UK. Her research focuses on the ways in which groups who travelled around Britain were represented in the past, particularly the nineteenth century, and the ways in which these stereotypes and prejudice persist. She is also an editorial co-ordinator for Identity Papers: A Journal of British and Irish Studies.

Erscheinungsdatum	13.03.2020
Reihe/Serie	Library of Gender and Popular Culture
Zusatzinfo	15 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	304 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
ISBN-10	1-350-15066-5 / 1350150665
ISBN-13	978-1-350-15066-9 / 9781350150669
Zustand	Neuware