{"product_id":"between-two-fires-gypsy-performance-and-romani-memory-from-pushkin-to-post-socialism-9780822324935","title":"Between Two Fires: Gypsy Performance and Romani Memory from Pushkin to Post-Socialism","description":"Since tsarist times, Roma in Russia have been portrayed as both rebellious outlaws and free-spirited songbirds-in each case, as if isolated from society. In Soviet times, Russians continued to harbor these two, only seemingly opposed, views of \"Gypsies,\" exalting their songs on stage but scorning them on the streets as liars and cheats. Alaina Lemon's \u003ci\u003eBetween Two Fires\u003c\/i\u003e examines how Roma themselves have negotiated these dual images in everyday interactions and in stage performances.\u003cbr\u003eLemon's ethnographic study is based on extensive fieldwork in 1990s Russia and focuses on Moscow Romani Theater actors as well as Romani traders and metalworkers. Drawing from interviews with Roma and Russians, observations of performances, and conversations, as well as archives, literary texts, and media, Lemon analyzes the role of theatricality and theatrical tropes in Romani life and the everyday linguistics of social relations and of memory. Historically, the way Romani stage performance has been culturally framed and positioned in Russia has served to typecast Gypsies as \"natural\" performers, she explains. Thus, while theatrical and musical performance may at times empower Roma, more often it has reinforced and rationalized racial and social stereotypes, excluding them from many Soviet and Russian economic and political arenas. Performance, therefore, defines what it means to be Romani in Russia differently than it does elsewhere, Lemon shows. Considering formal details of language as well as broader cultural and social structures, she also discusses how racial categories relate to post-Soviet economic changes, how gender categories and Euro-Soviet notions of civility are connected, and how ontological distinctions between \"stage art\" and \"real life\" contribute to the making of social types. This complex study thus serves as a corrective to romantic views of Roma as detached from political forces.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alaina Lemon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/20\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.04h x 6.05w x 0.95d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822324935\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2001 pg. 1500\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlaina Lemon is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40198557859955,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":28.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_429bc7fa-a2e1-4fc2-9bef-604bedcbd584.jpg?v=1656078700","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/between-two-fires-gypsy-performance-and-romani-memory-from-pushkin-to-post-socialism-9780822324935","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}