Reading Trauma in Colum McCann’s “Step We Gaily, On We Go”

摘要

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.