Gypsy Woman
Subtitle: Representations in Literature and Visual Culture
Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company, Limited
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781788313810
Subjects: Romanies
Description: "The exotic and dangerous stereotype of the Gypsy woman formed in nineteenth-century literature and visual culture remains alive today. These contemporary clichés 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 nineteenth century"--Back cover.