"Sobre todo, una artista". Entrevista a Sara Baume

Autores/as

  • Margarita Estévez-Saá Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24162/EI2020-9778

Palabras clave:

Sara Baume, literatura irlandesa, Irlanda contemporánea, naturaleza, representación de animales no humanos

Resumen

La escritora Sara Baume se ha convertido en una de las voces más brillantes del actual panorama artístico y literario en Irlanda. Baume ha conseguido combinar de forma única su ya consolidada carrera como escritora con sus ingentes conocimientos sobre arte y sus propios proyectos artísticos. Baume ha escrito dos novelas unánimemente aplaudidas por la crítica, spill simmer falter wither (2015) y A Line Made by Walking (2017); y un considerable número de relatos cortos que han sido publicados en prestigiosas revistas y colecciones literarias como The Stinging Fly, Granta, The Moth, The Dublin Review, o The Davy Byrnes Collection. Más recientemente ha publicado Handiwork (2020), un íntimo testimonio de su vida, intereses y proyectos como escritora y como artista, a la vez que un sentido y personal homenaje a la figura de su padre fallecido. En la presente entrevista, la escritora comenta el panorama actual de la literatura irlandesa, los cambios sociales y económicos que han tenido lugar recientemente en su país, y los dos lenguajes entre los que siempre se ha sentido atrapada, el que vierte en el papel y el que transforma en pequeñas series de miniaturas. Sara Baume ha puesto estos dos lenguajes al servicio de uno de sus intereses más obvios y recurrentes, su eterna fascinación y preocupación por la naturaleza y los animales.

Biografía del autor/a

Margarita Estévez-Saá, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

Margarita Estévez-Saá is Senior Lecturer of English and American Literature at the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Her research interests include the work of James Joyce and, more recently, contemporary Irish fiction by women. She has published essays in which she studies the topic of immigration in recent Irish fiction, such as “Antidotes to Celtic Tiger Ireland in Contemporary Irish Fiction: Anne Haverty’s The Free and the Easy and Éillís Ní Dhuibne’s Fox, Swallow, Scarecrow” (2010) and “Immigration in Celtic Tiger and post-Celtic Tiger Novels” (2013). She has also read contemporary novels in English from a transcultural perspective in “Trauma and Transculturalism in Contemporary Fictional Memories of the 9/11 Terrorist Attacks” (2016) and “‘Us returniks’: Transcultural Atlantic Exchanges in Mary Rose Callaghan’s and Elizabeth Wassell’s Novels” (2018). More recently, she has co-edited with María Jesús Lorenzo-Modia the volume The Ethics and Aesthetics of Eco-caring: Contemporary Debates on Ecofeminism(s) (Routledge, 2019).

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_______. “Green, Mud, Gold”. Granta 135 (Spring 2016): 90-99.

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Publicado

31-10-2020

Cómo citar

Estévez-Saá, M. (2020). "Sobre todo, una artista". Entrevista a Sara Baume. Estudios Irlandeses, 15(2), 117–128. https://doi.org/10.24162/EI2020-9778