ABSTRACT
The Roma has throughout the European system marginal statues in the society. Moreover, as distinct from Jews, they were not adopted in the same vein of solidarity that, at least as a potentiality, existed in the case of this far better integrated minority. The result was the “silence cartel,” which concealed the catastrophes they were the victims of. This chapter follows the development of representations of Roma in Yugoslav and Post-Yugoslav literatures. Thereby emerges the recognizable tendency of their image being built in two opposite ways—leading to the same result. Either as criminals and violators or as a romantic symbol of freedom. This all-encompassing tendency seems to break in postapocalyptic conditions of societies that arise after the break of Yugoslavia. Political correctness that was, at least partly, accepted as preferable, resulted in emphatic approach to this persecuted minority.
