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THE UNSPEAKABLE RACE OF ROMA AND . PERIPHERAL LEFTIST FEMINIST MODERNISM

Vērdiņš, Kārlis

Slavic and East European journal, 2023-04, Vol.67 (1), p.66 [Periódico revisado por pares]

Tucson: American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages

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  • Título:
    THE UNSPEAKABLE RACE OF ROMA AND . PERIPHERAL LEFTIST FEMINIST MODERNISM
  • Autor: Vērdiņš, Kārlis
  • Assuntos: Feminism ; Literary criticism ; Novels ; Racism ; Romani people ; Slavic literature
  • É parte de: Slavic and East European journal, 2023-04, Vol.67 (1), p.66
  • Descrição: To address the problem of racism in the contemporary post-Soviet region, the literary history of this multiethnic territory should be considered. The novelette The Gypsy and Three Ladies (1924) by Latvian feminist writer Lūcija Zamaič" was based on her experiences during the Great War as a refugee in Russia. It places the question of race next to her satirical critique of the bourgeois family, which she saw as similar to prostitution. In the novelette, a young Roma man Kazimir is hired by three married bourgeois ladies (a French, a Russian, and a Latvian) as a gigolo thus forming a "joint stock company" where each of the women has the same share. Kazimir's race, presented as "unspeakable" for the multiethnic bourgeois world of the agonizing Russian Empire, is what complicates the lady's plan. As I suggest, Zamaič constructs the identity of her Latvian lady avoiding possible complicated implications of her ethnic and racial background. This helps her to claim her heroine's stable place in Eurasian modernity while the Roman man serves for an exoticized and Orientalized sex slave who is simultaneously demanded to perform his "authenticity" and obey to demands of the multiethnic Russian bourgeois society. Zamaič's narrative of conflicting aspects of race, class, ethnicity and gender shows the rapture in the history of the region with its "old" order. It shows a rupture also in its literary traditions with romanticized and exoticized Roma characters in Russian romanticism as well as Roman people as familiar Others in Latvian rural realist fiction of the pre-war era.
  • Editor: Tucson: American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages
  • Idioma: Inglês
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