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A Romani women's anthology spectrum of the blue water

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  • Publisher:
    Inanna Publications, 2017
    Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.

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  • Author: Tahirović-Sijerčić, Hedina; Levine-Rasky, Cynthia
    Date:
    Created
    2017
    Summary:

    Romani Women in Canada: Spectrum of the Blue Water is grounded upon Romani women’s lived experience as writers, essayists, visual artists, and activists. Reflecting the panoply of women’s voices, the book links everyday experience and a social critique of the factors that enable and constrain women’s lives. Through incisive creativity, pragmatic action, and affective networks, the book is a consolidation of diverse expressions of agency and collectivity. Sharing a will to advance the dignity of women’s lives, the contributors are as plural as their subject matter. Canadian Romani women are impressively diverse in their attachments, status, beliefs, and identities. The chapters in this book illustrate this multiplicity by traversing creative practices and writing motifs. Contributors are visual artists, fiction and non-fiction writers, poets, scholars, and essayists. Reflecting the breadth of contributors’ creative genres, the book is eclectic in content with multiple forms of writing and images. Photographs of visual art and black-and-white portraits of Canadian Romani women will complement the written textual components.

    Contents:

    Romani identity / Hedina Tahirovic-Sijercic --
    Life stories in poetry (poems) / Hedina Tahirovic-Sijercic --
    Speaking of subjectivities / Cynthia Levine-Rasky --
    Seeking justice for Roma refugees : how I became a leader in my community / Gina Csanyi-Robah --
    Roma / Julia Lovell --
    Activist in Hungary / asylum-seeker in Toronto : five years in transition / Viktoria Mohacsi --
    Tillsonburgs : strategies for living / Lynn Hutchinson Lee --
    My life as a Romani woman / Delilah Lee --
    What is in a name? / Ildi Gulyas --
    We are the roads that meet / Elizabeth Lisa Ann Csanyi --
    Romani woman's beautiful dream comes true / Timea Agnes Daroczi --
    Women in RomaRisingCA / Chad Evans Wyatt --
    I stand against the ninary : art and identity / Monica Bodirsky --
    Romani advocacy, identity, and integration : music and myths in Montreal / Melaena Allen-Trottier --
    It is in the blood / Saskia Tomkins --
    Django on the guitar / Arielle Dylan --
    Old wedding dress / Sarah Barbieux --
    Misery loves love, Misery loves me / Elizabeth Lisa Ann Csanyi --
    "There is only one Gyongyi" / Bluma Teram --
    When Roma can disagree : the need for diverse representation / Jennifer Danch --
    Roma sisters / Julia Lovell.

    Genre:
    Canadian nonfiction, Essays, Social science
    Subject(s): Women, Romani | Canada | Romanies--Social conditions | Women authors, Canadian | Canadian literature--Women authors | Immigrants' writings, Canadian
    Original Publisher: Toronto, Inanna Publications
    Language(s): English