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Analysis of Narrative Strategies in Colum McCann’s Short Story “Sisters”
LU Ke
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2023.01.002
Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China
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.
Colum McCann, sisters, narrative structure, narrative voice
Journal of Literature and Art Studies, January 2023, Vol. 13, No. 1, 7-12
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