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urn:uuid:0d485404-68e5-4f24-83e8-e993093f5f1d 03 15 9780692655832 00 EB E107 10 01 01 Rumba under Fire The Arts of Survival from West Point to Delhi 1 B01 Irina Dumitrescu <bold>Irina Dumitrescu</bold> teaches medieval literature at the University of Bonn, and writes on literature, food, immigration, and dance. Her scholarly essays have appeared in <italic>PMLA</italic>, <italic>Anglia</italic>, <italic>Exemplaria</italic>, <italic>Forum for Modern Language Studies</italic>, and in various collections. Her belletristic writing has appeared in <italic>The Yale Review</italic>, <italic>The Southwest Review</italic>, the <italic>Washington Post</italic>, <italic>The Manifest-Station</italic>, and <italic>Petits Propos Culinaires</italic>. She blogs about dance at <ext-link xlink:href="http://atisheh.com/">Atisheh</ext-link> and about culinary disasters at <ext-link xlink:href="http://foodgonewrong.com">Food Gone Wrong</ext-link>. 01 eng 00 264 03 23 cultural studies 23 Humanities+University 12 JFC 10 LCO015000 23 humanities 10 LCO010000 23 art in crisis 23 crisis 23 war 01 06 03 00 A 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 <italic>rumba</italic> 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.<italic>Rumba under Fire</italic> 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 <italic>Rumba under Fire</italic> 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? punctum books 01 punctum books 04 01 20160229 02 WORLD 06 15 9780692655832 WORLD 09 punctum books 20 01