Sinti and Roma: Gypsies in German-Speaking Society and Literature.(Review)

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Sinti and Roma: Gypsies in German-Speaking Society and Literature. Ed. by SUSAN TEBBUTT. (Culture and Society in Germany, 2) New York and Oxford: Berghahn. 1998. xxiv + 168 pp. 12.95 [pounds sterling].

The singular perspective on which German Studies was founded has recently been pluralized. The realization that identity is a construct, not a given, and that this construction may involve the exclusion of otherness, has made the problem of alterity in Germanic culture into one of today's major research topics. This welcome trend has restored a voice to German communities of Jewish, ...

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