Book Launch: The Roma - A Travelling History
The Roma Cultural Centre are delighted to host the launch of Madeline Potter's new book - The Roma - A Travelling History!
About Book Launch: The Roma - A Travelling History
Join us for an evening of celebration with Madeline with an author talk, book excerpt readings and refreshments!
A unique blend of memoir, travelogue and history of an othered and misunderstood people – and a celebration of resistance and resilience.
About the Author:
Madeline Potter was born in Romania in 1989 and grew up Romani in nineties post-Communist Romania. She now lives in Scotland and is a scholar of nineteenth-century literature at the University of Edinburgh.
About the Book:
The Roma is a profoundly personal portrait of a people and their on-going journey, shedding new light on their history in countries through which they’ve travelled and in which they’ve settled, and what it means to be Romani in Europe today. It is a history that is not widely understood, and that invisibility has created a space where fear and hostility continue to thrive. The Roma, as well as being full of fascinating stories and extraordinary individuals, is a powerful corrective to the stereotyping and prejudices that Romani communities still face today.
We meet Ceija Stojka, the Roma artist who chronicled her experiences of the Holocaust in Austria; Johann Trollmann, the Sinto boxer who should have become Germany’s light-heavyweight champion only to have his win scratched from the record by the Nazis; and Mary Squires, the nineteenth-century Romani who was accused of kidnapping a young woman and sentenced to death only to be exonerated thanks to some detective work by an unconvinced judge.
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