Roma-Literaturen und Kreolisierung

• Kovacshazy Cécile

• Coolitude

The idea of creolization can be related to the Roma worlds (given their heterogeneous diversity, these can only be referred to in the plural) if one assumes that there are different forms of circulation and exchange, which can be as much linguistic as cultural (in the narrow sense of the word) in nature. But just as one cannot speak of just one Roma culture, Roma cultures cannot be reduced to borrowings or métissages. Even today, there is still far too much ignorance about the everyday life and living conditions of the Roma, the political and social consequences of which are felt on a daily basis. Édouard Glissant's call for a droit à l'opacité (“right to opacity”) seems to me to be particularly relevant in relation to the people he saw as the embodiment of creolization. Glissant proposes a program of living together that is particularly relevant in these times of intolerable intolerance: “For me, it is no longer necessary to ‘understand’ the Other, that is, to reduce him to the model of my own transparency, in order to live together with this Other or to build something with him.” (Glissant 2005: 54)