Authentic violence: The changing sameness of ‘real’ Romani discourse in Dominic Reeve’s life story

IF 0.2 4区社会学 Q4 ANTHROPOLOGY Romani Studies Pub Date : 2016-11-23 DOI:10.3828/RS.2016.8

M. Shaw

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Abstract: The article focuses on the discourse of the real or true Romani/traveller in Dominic Reeve’s life story, which consists of five autobiographical texts published between 1958 and 2010. Reeve defends various factions of Romanies/travellers from a real/fake dichotomy that partially dominates negotiations of recognition. This discourse changes over time from biological to bio-cultural and then to cultural, but then on to bio-genetic and finally a conflation of bio-genetic and cultural discourse. However, throughout these changes there is a structural sameness that Reeve cannot quite escape, and which casts doubt on whether the discourse actually does change. Ultimately, Reeve attempts to settle on a traveller-gauje divide, but the real/fake discourse re-emerges, thus reproducing the dominant discourse itself. During these negotiations, Reeve communicates with three seemingly competitive views of Romani/traveller identity, and in a sense re-unites them. On a more subjective level, Reeve gradually negotiates a much-desired position of group belonging for himself and this brings the life story into the frame of the bildungsroman.

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真实的暴力:多米尼克·里夫生活故事中“真实”罗姆人话语的同一性变化

摘要:本文主要探讨多米尼克·里夫(Dominic Reeve)在1958年至2010年间出版的五篇自传体文本中真实或真实的罗姆人/旅行者话语。里夫为罗姆人/旅行者的各种派别辩护，使他们免受真假二分法的影响，这种二分法在一定程度上主导了承认谈判。随着时间的推移，这种论述从生物到生物文化，再到文化，然后到生物遗传，最后是生物遗传和文化论述的合并。然而，在这些变化中，有一种结构上的同一性是里夫无法完全逃脱的，这让人怀疑话语是否真的发生了变化。最终，里夫试图解决旅行者与gauje的分歧，但真实/虚假的话语再次出现，从而再现了主导话语本身。在这些谈判中，里夫与三种看似相互竞争的罗姆人/旅行者身份观点进行了沟通，并在某种意义上重新统一了它们。在更主观的层面上，里夫逐渐为自己争取到了一个非常渴望的群体归属地位，这将生活故事带入了成长小说的框架。

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Romani Studies Social Sciences-Cultural Studies

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期刊介绍： Founded in 1888, the Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society was published in four series up to 1982. In 2000, the journal became Romani Studies. On behalf of the Gypsy Lore Society, Romani Studies features articles on many different communities which, regardless of their origins and self-appellations in various languages, have been referred to in English as Gypsies. These communities include the descendants of migrants from the Indian subcontinent which have been considered as falling into three large subdivisions, Dom, Lom, and Rom. The field has also included communities of other origins which practice, or in the past have practiced, a specific type of service nomadism. The journal publishes articles in history, anthropology, ethnography, sociology, linguistics, art, literature, folklore and music, as well as reviews of books and audiovisual materials.