Sam Shepard

Abbotson, Susan C. W.

doi:10.1017/ccol0521771587.018

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“…Bottoms (1998), for example, uses Shepard's life experiences to provide a chronological overview of the plays' analyses, resulting in an insightful connection between the playwright's life and his characters. Similarly, Abbotson (2002) points out that many critical analysts have found it difficult to comprehend Shepard's plays without considering the biography of -the writer of the plays‖ (p. 293). In this way, Shepard's plays appear to be profoundly anchored in his own life and experiences.…”

Section: Male Identity Struggles In States Of Shockmentioning

confidence: 99%

Dismantling Fabricated Reality in Shepard’s State of Shock

Ziyad Shakir Loaybi Al-Zayadi,

Asst. Prof. Thamir R. S. Az-Zubaidy (Ph.D.)

2023

JCEWU

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This paper investigates Sam Shepard’s States of Shock in which the playwright explores family relation during an international crisis, war. As male identity is noted as a recurring theme in Shepard’s plays, the paper examines masculine identity in States of Shock. As depicted in the play, Colonel and Stubbs, the main characters in the play, struggle to negotiate their personal identity prisms. As such, we explore this issue via the lens of social identity to address the primary constructs in the play. Although taking as its setting a family café, the events in the play transcend this both temporally and spatially through the two characters’ battle for male identity at the war front lines. As such, we argue that through the characters of Colonel and Stubbs, where the former promotes war mythologies regardless of the suffering of the traumatized soldier, Stubbs, the play presents a critique of American myths of war.

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Section: Male Identity Struggles In States Of Shockmentioning

confidence: 99%