The Investigation of Identity Construction: A Foucauldian Reading of Sam Shepard's Buried Child  

Oleh:

Saeidabadi, S. ; Shahabi, H.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah nasional - terakreditasi DIKTI
Dalam koleksi: K@ta [Kata]: a biannual publication on the study of language and literature (ada di ProQuest) vol. 18 no. 1 (Jun. 2016), page 19-24.
Topik: Family problem plays; Technologies of power; Power/knowledge; Subject
Fulltext: 18971-22739-1-SM.pdf (142.72KB)

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Shepard is peculiarly powerful in his symbolic family problem plays: True West, Buried Child and Curse of the Starving Class. He allegorizes the American experience and undermines the myth of America as the New Eden. The present study seeks to critically explore Sam Shepard's Buried Child in terms of Foucauldian conception of identity construction. Shepard is depicting a dystopian world with its bewildered characters; however he has still got a romantic view of individuals trying to grapple with the society in order to get unity and order. This Shephardian attitude towards human beings is seemingly a free agent that overlaps the Foucauldian view which establishes a philosophy focusing on the relationship between the self and the society. The present essay attempts to demonstrate the complicated relationship between the self and the opposing forces.

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