Art and sustenance in the work of Sara Baume
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11210%2F24%3A10481523" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11210/24:10481523 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=qZtw8pzRMH" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=qZtw8pzRMH</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09670882.2024.2333576" target="_blank" >10.1080/09670882.2024.2333576</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Art and sustenance in the work of Sara Baume
Original language description
The question of what role literature and art may play has become all the more urgent amidst the present intersectional crisis. This article discusses the oeuvre of author and visual artist Sara Baume which invites engagement with central aspects of this crisis: humanity's impact on nature and the resulting climate change, and the effects of neoliberal capitalism. Discussing Baume's three novels (Spill Simmer Falter Wither, A Line Made by Walking, and Seven Steeples) together with her non-fictional narrative Handiwork and the performance piece "The Alphabet of Birds," the essay argues that while it might be justified to approach Baume's work as poignant critique of the Anthropocene and its attendant ecological and spiritual devastation, it distinctly transcends such instrumentalist critical paradigms. Stoically lyrical about nature interlaced with variegated detritus, and using protagonists positioned on the margins of society, Baume offers an extended meditation on the role of art at the time of crisis and the possibilities of drawing sustenance from artistic creation. As such, Baume's work engagingly illustrates what Derek Attridge has termed the "singularity" of literature and art, resisting predetermined agendas (including those vitally beneficial) and providing a repeatable opportunity for a potentially risky encounter with alterity.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60205 - Literary theory
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/EH22_008%2F0004595" target="_blank" >EH22_008/0004595: Beyond Security: Role of Conflict in Resilience-Building</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Irish Studies Review
ISSN
0967-0882
e-ISSN
1469-9303
Volume of the periodical
32
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
13
Pages from-to
193-205
UT code for WoS article
001203823500001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85190455752