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    <language>eng</language>
        <publisher>Journal of Irish Studies</publisher>
        <journalTitle>Estudios Irlandeses</journalTitle>
        <eissn>1699-311X</eissn>
            <publicationDate>2023-03-17</publicationDate>
        <volume>18</volume>
    <issue>18</issue>
        <startPage>197</startPage>
    <endPage>202</endPage>
    <publisherRecordId>11371</publisherRecordId>
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    <title language="eng"><![CDATA[ “When writing, I see myself as a drone”. An Interview with Jan Carson ]]></title>

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      <author>
        <name><![CDATA[ María Amor Barros-del Río ]]></name>
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      <affiliationName affiliationId="1"><![CDATA[ University of Burgos, Spain ]]></affiliationName>
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        <abstract language="eng"><![CDATA[ Northern Irish author Jan Carson was invited writer at the 20th International Conference of the Spanish Association for Irish Studies (AEDEI), organized by the Universidad de Burgos in 2022. There, she kindly talked about herself as a writer, about the intricacies of her creative work, and about the sensitive issues underlying the plot of The Raptures, her last novel. Violence, religion, rurality and death, are filtered through Hannah’s eyes, a young girl for whom reality and magic mingle inextricably.
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          <keywords language="eng">
              <keyword>Jan Carson; Northern Ireland; Magic realism; The Raptures; Religion</keyword>
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