The Naked Wind Turns/the Corner in Surprise: A Transformative Narrative About Roma Inclusion. (December 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Munté, Ariadna
• Other Names: Soler Marta guest-editor.
• Is Part Of: Qualitative inquiry. Volume 21:Number 10(2015)
• Page Start: 893
• Page End: 898
• Publication Date: 2015-12
• Subjects: narrative -- Roma community -- identity construction -- stories; Social sciences -- Methodology -- Periodicals; Social sciences -- Research -- Periodicals; 300.72
• DOI: 10.1177/1077800415614033
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1077-8004

Abstract

This article constitutes a narrative of the life events of Antonio, a man belonging to the Roma community. His life story combines passages of exclusion, in which Antonio was the target of cultural bias that even led him to be imprisoned, with transformative experiences that were greatly influenced by his participation in a Dialogic Literary Gathering. Through the shared reading of Federico García Lorca's Gypsy Ballads, he strengthened his identity as a man who is deeply proud of belonging to the Roma community and became an agent of social transformation. The interactions and meaning created in the Dialogic Literary Gathering allowed him to rewrite his story, tearing down the walls of prejudice that Lorca masterfully denounced in his works.