本論文以創傷研究及倫理學的角度，探討科倫．麥肯《讓美好世界轉動》中痛失子女的父母們，如何克服孩子們的死亡，以及如何透過與他人建立新連結，進而發掘人生新的意義。本論文除了導論與結語之外，主要分成二個章節。第一章援引佛洛伊德及凱西．卡露絲的創傷理論，分析小說中三位喪親者：瑪西亞、所羅門與克萊爾，如何面對孩子們突如其來的死訊。有別於瑪西亞的抑鬱與所羅門的壓抑，克萊爾參加互助團體，欲藉此克服喪子之痛。然而當克萊爾向其他母親成員訴說自身故事時，不僅無法與自己在越戰死去的兒子道別，反而再一次地經歷失去兒子的痛苦。在了解到僅透過述說自身創傷回憶，並不足以撫慰這群父母們之後，第二章接著深入探索其它將自身創傷轉化為同理心的可能性，分析小說角色們如何將悲傷化成愛、以愛療傷。透過援引伊曼紐爾·列維納斯的臉龐理論，本論文將進一步檢視克萊爾與另一位同樣也在越戰中失去兒子的葛洛麗亞，如何藉由回應彼此的傷痛，克服喪子之痛，並在學會如何與悲傷共存之外，透過領養將母愛延續至蒂莉的孫女們身上。

Researching into Colum McCann’s Let the Great World Spin within the framework of trauma and ethics studies, this thesis explores how the bereaved parents in the novel cope with their loss of children, and discover new meanings of life through establishing new connections with others. The thesis contains two main chapters, in addition to the introductory and concluding chapters. Drawing on Sigmund Freud’s and Cathy Caruth’s trauma theories, Chapter One analyzes three cases of bereaved parents, Marcia, Solomon and Claire, in order to examine their reactions to their children’s unexpected deaths. Different from Marcia’s depression and Solomon’s repression, Claire joins a support group in the hope to overcome sorrow. Instead of bidding farewell to her son, who dies in the Vietnam War, Claire relives traumatic memory when narrating her story to other bereaved mothers. Having revealed, in the first chapter, the insufficiency of story-telling in helping the bereaved parents, Chapter Two then turns to other alternatives that the novel has provided in transforming trauma into empathy. Emmanuel Levinas’s notion of face sheds critical light on my examination of the ways that Claire and another bereaved mother, Gloria, work through their own loss by developing new connections with each other. Through responding to each other’s wound, Claire and Gloria not only learn how to live with grief, but extend their maternal love to Tillie’s orphaned granddaughters.

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