The Heroic Present: Life Among the Gypsies - Yoors, Jan
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Belgian-born Jan Yoors, who would grow up to become an acclaimed artist, photographer, and writer, ran away from home at age twelve, in 1934, to join a kumpania (band) of Roma, or Gypsies, near Antwerp. He spent several years traveling with the Roma and returned to the group for extended periods in the 1960s and 1970s. In 1967, he published The Gypsies, a first-hand account of life among the Roma by one of the few outsiders ever to be accepted into their ranks. His writings, at once clear-sighted and warmhearted, detached and engaged, demonstrate an acute understanding of Romani life and…mehr

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Belgian-born Jan Yoors, who would grow up to become an acclaimed artist, photographer, and writer, ran away from home at age twelve, in 1934, to join a kumpania (band) of Roma, or Gypsies, near Antwerp. He spent several years traveling with the Roma and returned to the group for extended periods in the 1960s and 1970s. In 1967, he published The Gypsies, a first-hand account of life among the Roma by one of the few outsiders ever to be accepted into their ranks. His writings, at once clear-sighted and warmhearted, detached and engaged, demonstrate an acute understanding of Romani life and remain required reading for any study of the Roma. The Heroic Present brings together excerpts from The Gypsies and from Yoors's unpublished works with photographs of the Roma taken by Yoors over more than forty years--in France, Spain, Hungary, Romania, Greece, and India--that reveal the daily fabric of life: intimate rituals of birth, marriage, and death and large, joyful celebrations. Also included is an essay be renowned Roma historian Ian Hancock that elucidates the position occupied by the Roma, notably the Lovari Romanies, with whom Yoors lived. Comprehensive and vivid, visual and literary, The Heroic Present is an unequaled portrait of daily life among the Gypsies, revealing a rich culture that has endured for centuries.
Autorenporträt
Jan Yoors was born in Antwerp, Belgium; trained as a sculptor in Brussels; and became an acclaimed tapestry artist and weaver in New York. He is the author of The Gypsies and Crossing: A Journal of Survival and Resistance in World War II. Ian Hancock was born in England of British and Hungarian Romani descent and has been active in the Romani movement since the 1960s. He is professor of Romani studies and director of the Romani Archives and Documentation Center at the University of Texas at Austin.