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Rumba under Fire: The Arts of Survival from West Point to Delhi

  • Irina Dumitrescu (editor)
Metadata
TitleRumba under Fire
SubtitleThe Arts of Survival from West Point to Delhi
ContributorIrina Dumitrescu (editor)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0134.1.00
Landing pagehttps://punctumbooks.com/titles/rumba-under-fire/
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
CopyrightDumitrescu, Irina
Publisherpunctum books
Publication placeEarth, Milky Way
Published on2016-02-29
ISBN978-0-692-65583-2 (Paperback)
Long abstractA professor of poetry uses a deck of playing cards to measure the time until her lover returns from Afghanistan. Congolese soldiers find their loneliness reflected in the lyrics of rumba songs. Survivors of the siege of Sarajevo discuss which book they would have never burned for fuel. A Romanian political prisoner writes her memoir in her head, a book no one will ever read. These are the arts of survival in times of crisis. Rumba Under Fire proposes we think differently about what it means for the arts and liberal arts to be “in crisis.” In prose and poetry, the contributors to Rumba Under Fire explore what it means to do art in hard times. How do people teach, create, study, and rehearse in situations of political crisis? Can art and intellectual work really function as resistance to power? What relationship do scholars, journalists, or even memoirists have to the crises they describe and explain? How do works created in crisis, especially at the extremes of human endurance, fit into our theories of knowledge and creativity?
Print length264 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)
Dimensions127 x 203 mm | 5" x 8" (Paperback)
THEMA
  • DNL
  • DNP
BIC
  • JFC
BISAC
  • LCO015000
  • LCO010000
Keywords
  • cultural studies
  • humanities
  • art in crisis
  • crisis
  • war
Contents

Frontmatter

(pp. i–x)
  • Irina Dumitrescu

Introduction

(pp. xiii–xxiii)
  • Irina Dumitrescu

Triptych (The Library)

(pp. 1–1)
  • Andrew Crabtree

What Book Would You Never Burn (For Fuel)?

(pp. 3–13)
  • Dennis Ferhatović

Poems in Prison: The Survival Strategies of Romanian Political Prisoners

(pp. 15–30)
  • Irina Dumitrescu

Writing Resistance: Lena Constante's The Silent Escape and the Journal as Genre in Romania's (Post)Communist Literary Field

(pp. 31–52)
  • Carla Baricz

War and the Food of Dreams: An Interview with Cara De Silva

(pp. 53–77)
  • Irina Dumitrescu
  • Cara De Silva

Atempause and Atemschaukel: The Post-War Periods of Primo Levi and Herta Müller

(pp. 79–99)
  • Tim Albrecht

Theater in Wartime

(pp. 101–102)
  • Greg Alan Brownderville

Counting Cards: A Poetics for Deployment

(pp. 103–117)
  • Susannah Hollister

Ace of Hearts

(pp. 119–120)
  • Susannah Hollister

Civilization and its Malcontents: On Teaching Western Humanities in "The New Turkey"

(pp. 121–144)
  • William Coker

Departure Entrance

(pp. 145–153)
  • Dennis Ferhatović

Profanations: The Public, The Political and The Humanities in India

(pp. 155–174)
  • Prashant Keshavmurthy

Village Cosmopolitanisms: Or, I See Kabul from Lado Sarai

(pp. 175–195)
  • Anand Vivek Taneja

Terpsichore

(pp. 197–199)
  • Irina Dumitrescu

Rumba Under FIre: Music as Morale and Morality in Music at the Frontlines of the Congo

(pp. 201–230)
  • Judith Verweijen

Ulysses

(pp. 231–231)
  • Sharon Portnoff

Backmatter

(pp. 233–241)
  • Irina Dumitrescu
Contributors

Irina Dumitrescu

(editor)