Colum McCann is an Irish writer who settles in the United States.He is famous for his description of the psychological dislocation and trauma of ethnic minorities living in foreign cultures.In the collection of short ...Colum McCann is an Irish writer who settles in the United States.He is famous for his description of the psychological dislocation and trauma of ethnic minorities living in foreign cultures.In the collection of short stories Fishing The Sloe-Black River,“Step We Gaily,On We Go”tells the traumatic life of an Irishman living in the United States.It is an important early work of McCann.From the perspective of trauma theory,this article uses close reading of the text to analyze the trauma symptoms and the causes of trauma.展开更多
As the opening work of“Fishing the Sloe-Black River Stories,”Irish-American writer Colum McCann’s short story“Sisters”has attracted scholars’interest with its profuse historical background and themes of the time...As the opening work of“Fishing the Sloe-Black River Stories,”Irish-American writer Colum McCann’s short story“Sisters”has attracted scholars’interest with its profuse historical background and themes of the times.From the perspective of narratology,this paper considers that the writer uses narrative techniques such as non-linear narration and embedded structure to express multi-level narrative voices through a first-person narrator,Sheona.These narrative techniques help to fully reflect the theme of the work and endow the work with great aesthetic and ideological value.展开更多
“Sisters”is the first novel in Irish-American author Colum McCann’s short story collection-Fishing the Sloe-Black River,which tells the story of Sheona’s search for her identity between Ireland and the United Stat...“Sisters”is the first novel in Irish-American author Colum McCann’s short story collection-Fishing the Sloe-Black River,which tells the story of Sheona’s search for her identity between Ireland and the United States.Colum McCann is skilled in writing about the spiritual dilemmas and identity search of ethnic minorities living in a foreign land.Employing the space theory and Sheona’s perspective,this paper examines her identity loss in Ireland’s patriarchal system,her migration to the US for identity pursuit,and her subsequent transnational journey between the two nations to reconstruct her identity amidst physical and mental trauma.展开更多
文摘Colum McCann is an Irish writer who settles in the United States.He is famous for his description of the psychological dislocation and trauma of ethnic minorities living in foreign cultures.In the collection of short stories Fishing The Sloe-Black River,“Step We Gaily,On We Go”tells the traumatic life of an Irishman living in the United States.It is an important early work of McCann.From the perspective of trauma theory,this article uses close reading of the text to analyze the trauma symptoms and the causes of trauma.
文摘As the opening work of“Fishing the Sloe-Black River Stories,”Irish-American writer Colum McCann’s short story“Sisters”has attracted scholars’interest with its profuse historical background and themes of the times.From the perspective of narratology,this paper considers that the writer uses narrative techniques such as non-linear narration and embedded structure to express multi-level narrative voices through a first-person narrator,Sheona.These narrative techniques help to fully reflect the theme of the work and endow the work with great aesthetic and ideological value.
文摘“Sisters”is the first novel in Irish-American author Colum McCann’s short story collection-Fishing the Sloe-Black River,which tells the story of Sheona’s search for her identity between Ireland and the United States.Colum McCann is skilled in writing about the spiritual dilemmas and identity search of ethnic minorities living in a foreign land.Employing the space theory and Sheona’s perspective,this paper examines her identity loss in Ireland’s patriarchal system,her migration to the US for identity pursuit,and her subsequent transnational journey between the two nations to reconstruct her identity amidst physical and mental trauma.
