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Jess Gallerie

Student
English

Scholarly Works


Imagining Slipstream: Undefining Reality in Jan Carson’s The Fire Starters

Journal article Studies in the Fantastic · 2026 Abstract: Set in post-Troubles Northern Ireland, Jan Carson’s 2019 speculative novel The Fire Starters depicts a Belfast both real and unreal: summers punctuated by multistory bonfires threaten to reignite old sectarian violence, and ... Full text Cite