131300 20240207154753.0 doi 10.5817/BSE2022-2-8 sideral 136753 ART-2022-136753 eng Nadal Ruiz, Alejandro Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0001-5620-8300 The multidirectionality of romani identity in Damian Le Bas’ The Stopping Places 2022 The romanticised and stereotyped construction of the Romani people absorbed by mainstream society has contributed to the obliteration of their cultural complexity and their ensuing alienation. The present article analyses how the memoir The Stopping Places (2018), by the British Romani writer Damian Le Bas, makes a case for the borderlessness of his people. It is the main purpose of this study to underscore Romani identity as inherently multidirectional, hence allowing for a relational, intercultural dialogue aimed at transcending the long-standing Romani vs. non-Romani tension. For this purpose, Le Bas' network-like journey across some key stopping places is read as an endorsement of the synchronicity and interconnectedness characterising our present world. His narrative is an empowering attestation that foregrounds the fruitful interactions between the Roma and other cultures and sets the assumedly distrustful and protective Romani as an example of cultural flexibility. Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/H03-20R info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MICINN/PID2021-124841NB-I00 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by-nc-nd http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ 0.125 2022 Literature and Literary Theory 2022 Q2 Linguistics and Language 2022 Q3 0.3 2022 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 3004 345 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Filolog.Inglesa y Alema. Área Filología Inglesa 48, 2 (2022), 159-176 Brno Stud. Engl. Brno Studies in English 0524-6881 254145 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/131300/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 1466167 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/131300/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:131300 articulos driver 2024-02-07-14:38:08 ARTICLE