This book traces representations of "Gypsies" that have become prevalent in the European imagination and culture and influenced the perceptions of Roma in Eastern and Western European societies.

Roma in Europe: Gypsy Myth and Romani Reality - New Evidence for Romani History; R.Lee   Introduction; V.Glajar  Bohemian Philosophers: Nature, Nationalism and "Gypsies" in Nineteenth-Century European Literature; P.Landon The Story of Love, Human Conditions, and the Gypsy Lifestyle in Józef Ignacy KraszewskiâEUR(TM)s Chata za Wsia [The Cottage beyond the Village]; A.Nance Vsevolod Garshin's "The Bears": Gypsies and Russian Imperial Boundaries; M.Smith "Gypsies" and Property in British Literature: Orlando and Wuthering Heights; A.Bardi  Guilt, Trauma, and Revenge: The Romani Holocaust in Stefan Kanferâ " The Eighth Sin; V.Glajar Unveiling the Origin of the Romani Holocaust: The Anarchist Tradition in Winter Time by Walter Winter; F.Asya  The Deportation to Transdniester and the Exoticization of the Roma in Zaharia StancuâEUR(TM)s Novel The Gypsy Tribe; L.Cherciu  The "Gypsy" Stereotype and the Sexualization of Romani Women; I.Hancock Performing the Female Gypsy Commedia dell arte' s "Tricks" for Finding Freedom; D.Radulescu  Theater of the Underworld: Spectacle and Subculture in Hugoâ's Notre-Dame de Paris; A.Kilbaine Welcome Pictures, Unwanted Bodies: Gypsy Representations in New Europe's Cinema; D.Iordanova