Rumba under Fire: The Arts of Survival from West Point to Delhi /
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 rumba songs. Survivors of the siege of Sarajevo discuss which book they would have never burned for fuel. A Romanian po...
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2020
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Irina Dumitrescu
- Triptych (the library) / Andrew Crabtree
- What book would you never burn (for fuel)? / Denis Ferhatović
- Poems in prison : the survival strategies of Romanian political prisoners / Irina Dumitrescu
- Writing resistance : Lena Constante's The silent escape and the journal as genre in Romania's (post)communist literary field / Carla Baricz
- War and the food of dreams : an interview with Cara de Silva / Cara de Silva with Irina Dumitrescu
- Atempause and Atemschaukel : the post-war periods of Primo Levi and Herta Müller / Tim Albrecht
- Theater in wartime / Greg Alan Brownderville
- Counting cards : a poetics for deployment / Susannah Hollister
- Ace of hearts / Susannah Hollister
- Civilization and its malcontents : on teaching western humanities in "the new Turkey" / William Coker
- Departure entrance / Denis Ferhatović
- Profanations : the public, the political and the humanities in India / Prashant Keshavmurthy
- Village cosmopolitanisms : or, I see Kabul from Lado Sarai / Anand Vivek Taneja
- Terpsichore / Irina Dumitrescu
- Rumba under fire : music as morale and morality in music at the frontlines of the Congo / Judith Verweijen
- Ulysses / Sharon Portnoff.