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Lou
Charnon-Deutsch
Professor and Director of Graduate Studies Ph.D. 1978, University of Chicago Frank Melville, Jr. Memorial Library N3018 (631) 632-6031 |
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612 The Gypsy In the European Imaginary Fall 2003, Professors Kathleen
Vernon and Lou Charnon-Deutsch Library N3062 WED 4-7pm Topics and readings.
The subject of this course is the trafficking in stereotypes. Apart from a few facts that will be reviewed in the first session, the course does not discuss Roma groups as would historians and anthropologists uncovering the truth about a subject, rather it focuses on Gypsies, that is the imaginary, culturally constructed icon that has been for so many centuries a kind of cultural currency between and within groups and nations, part of what could be called the trafficking in stereotypes. Over the centuries the contours of this imaginary construct have changed in response to discrete geopolitical realities, but at the same time the fact that the Gypsy has remained such a fascinating icon for so many cultures and for so long also means that it plays a part in psychological processes in the Western collective imaginary. As we examine some of the more common cast of characters in the Gypsy repertoire (Carmen, Esmeralda, Fedalma, etc.) we will be talking about the psychological dividends of creative exoticisms such as the Gypsy in the European imaginary. |
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| Date | Topic | Reading/Viewing |
| 3
sept 1 |
Intro Intro: facts and myths of Roma origins; slides of Gypsy "pilgrims", excerpts from Fraser etc. Aug | |
| 10
sept 2 |
Discussion of the rise of Anthropology and the Sciences of Man in relation to notions of race and ethnicity | Excerpts from: Malik, The Meaning of Race; Todorov, On Human Diversity; Gobineau Diversity of Races, Lombroso Crime and Its Causes |
| 17
sept 3 |
Guest speaker Ian Hancock "The Romani and Gypsies: One People, Two Personas" | Selections from Hancock , We Are the Romani People; Lewy, The Nazi Persecutions |
| 24 sept | Cervantes' "Little Gypsy Girl" and the mythologizing of the Gypsy woman; Conceptualizing ethnicity | Charnon-Deutsch, "Cervantes' Precious Jewel of Love"; Miguel de Cervantes, "The Little Gypsy Girl"; Jones Archeology of Ethnicity |
| 1 oct | Mérimée's Carmen, Bohemians and Gypsies; 19th century genre painting, exoticism, magazine portraiture of the Gypsy (Slides); | Mérimée, Carmen; selections from Brown Gypsies and Other Bohemians; Furman, "The Languages of Love in Carmen," McClary's Georges Bizet Carmen; viewing of Rossi's film Carmen (1983) (on reserve) |
| 8 oct | Talk and discussion with Wim Willems"Writing Gypsies into European History; Myths, Facts, and New Concepts" | Selections from Willems Gypsies and Other Itinerant Groups; Willems, In Search of the Real Gypsy; Okely, Traveller-Gypsies; Trumpener "Time of the Gypsies" |
| 15 oct | Controversies surrounding Flamenco and Gypsy Music; Viewing of Tony Gatliff's Latcho Drom (1994) | New Grove "Gypsy Music"; New Grove "Flamenco"Lorca "Theory and Practice of Duende"; "Cante jondo"; Selections from Slobin, Returning Culture; |
| 22 oct | Talk and discussion with Carol Silverman "Trafficking the exotic with 'Gypsy' Music; World 'Music Festivals' and Romani Identities" | Silverman, "The Gender of the Profession";"Persecution and Politicization: Roma..." and "Researcher, Advocate, Friend..." Pettan, "Male, Female, and Beyond..." |
| 29 oct | Discussions of whiteness; Lorca and "duende", Race and the Españolada; Discussions with Professor Eva Woods | Selections from Dyer, White; Lorca "Play and Theory of the Duende,"; Lorca "Cante jondo" Vernon, "Culture and Cinema to 1975"; Labanyi "Race, Gender..." |
| 5 nov | Talk and discussion with Barbara Epstein Nord "Children of Hagar: Gypsies in the Nineteenth?Century British Imagination." | Nord, "Marks of Race"; Selections from Borrow, The Bible in Spain; The Zincali; Mayal Gypsy Travellers |
| 12 nov | Cinematographic Gypsies: Carmen Amaya; viewing of Jocelyn Ajami's film Queen of the Gypsies (2002) | Selections from Goldberg, Border Trespasses: The Gypsy Mask and Carmen Amaya's Flamenco Dance |
| 19 nov | Talk and Discussion with Timothy Mitchell: "Ecstatic Identity Construction and the Performance of Waste" | Roach, Chapter 1 Cities of the Dead1 page topic proposal due |
| 3 dec | Presentation of Tony Gatliff's film Vengo | |
| 10 dec | Oral abstracts of final paper |