Moving through Borders: Ghosts of the Troubles in Jan Carson’s The Fire Starters (2019) and The Last Resort (2021)

The works of Northern Irish writer Jan Carson seem to be haunted by the spectre of the Troubles. In her novel The Fire Starters (2019), she questions the assumption that ‘The Troubles are over now’ (7), blurring any clearly-established limit between past and present. Drawing on the metaphorical mean...

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Main Author: Héloïse Lecomte
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée 2025-05-01
Series:Études Britanniques Contemporaines
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/ebc/16096
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