The classic Western and Sam Shepard’s family sagas

Clum, John M.; Roudane, Matthew

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“…Henry moves to the Mexican wilderness after leaving his home. Shepard portrays the American family as a dysfunctional social unit in which each family member is estranged from the others and suffers from emotional traumas (Clum, 2002). As a result, Henry flees the family home to escape the dysfunctionality, as indicated by his wife departure to her family's house, to seek solace from his physical and emotional scars.…”

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“…This is also true to gender identities with masculine identities depicted in two aspects that are at odds. The first is the masculine success philosophy, in which a man adopts modern American society's preferred methods and styles (Clum, 2002). The second dimension, on the other hand, is a portrayal of Old West males who are committed to freedom and adventure (Petracca, 2021).…”

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Male Identity in Sam Shepardʼs Eyes for Consuela

Al-Zayadi¹,

Az-Zubaidy²

2022

JCEWU

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ABSTRACT The focus of this study is Sam Shepard's Eyes for Consuela, a play which scrutinizes the functions and dysfunctions of human relationships in terms of societal and family structures. In this paper we examine Eyes for Consuela as a play conveying men's struggle for identity. Moreover, it depicts how the struggle between the two leading male characters is resolved by the primary female character in the play. As such, the play dramatizes how male characters' struggle for identity is preoccupied by their relation to female characters. Shepard's play presents the journey of an American man in a Mexican remote jungle. Hence, it shows two parallel and opposing worlds, American and Mexican, which sheds the light on two different settings and identities. This also represents a struggle in the creation of male identity for the male characters. Relying on Connell's hegemonic masculinity theory, we argue that Eyes for Consuela portrays how the discrepancies in the two male identities are influenced by their different cultures. Further, we suggest that it follows Kimmel's Guyland model, by revealing how the fear of being dominated might initiate manly attitudes and encourage identity evolution.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Male Identity in Sam Shepardʼs Eyes for Consuela

Al-Zayadi¹,

Az-Zubaidy²

2022

JCEWU

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“…Although Murder in the Cathedral does not provide the experience of an ordinary play, the experience is a dramatic one. The identification of the audience is with chorus ,and through that identification the audience becomes not a group of completely passive spectators, but rather a group which shares in the mystery although ,like the chorus ,it may not completely understand that mystery ".The play transcends its origins ,and the chorus becomes humanity confronted with the mysteries of holiness and iniquity .The audience ,identified with chorus ,may not understand the man who allows himself to become a martyr, for whatever reason" 8 , but they share in the experience of seeing it happen ,"right before your very eyes "as pitchmen say. If we want to die, there nothing to be in hurry We shall a live if we died Those martyrs will be alive in Haven.…”

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of Tyranny and Martyrdom in Two plays Murder in Cathedral and Walls of Fear

Talib

2017

AJHSS

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This research paper deals with two plays: Iraqi play (Walls of Fear) by Iraqi dramatist Kadhim Imarn Mousa) and the second one is Murder in Cathedral by American Dramatist T.S.Eliot.Both dramatists present the martyr character from ordinary people but the tyrant is represented by kings or rulers. Theme of the play Murder in Cathedral is the conflict between what a man knows is right in the sight of God and brute force but the theme of the play Walls of Fear is the conflict between the people and the tyrant king .Many of Iraqi young people are martyrs like Thomas Becket.

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“…Some have arguably endeavored to explain this dilemma through the postmodern jargon by building on what Jameson (1991) calls "loss of historicity" or "historical deafness" (x) and the break with the past. Clum (2002) for instance, locates this fragmentation in the heart of a masculinity crisis which stems from the absence of and/or detachment from mythic heroes and Western myths. "The sons are compelled," he writes, "to connect with ideals of masculinity for which there are no real models and with myths of the American land that are no longer relevant" (173).…”

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Scratching an Invisible Limb A Lacanian Reading of Sam Shepard’s Buried Child

Moghadam

2018

International Journal of Emerging Trends in Social Sciences

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Alienation and loss appear as a pivotal theme in the majority of Sam Shepard"s family plays. This study intends to give a Lacanian reading of Sam Shepard"s Buried Child. Drawing primarily on Lacan"s linguistic theory of psychoanalysis, as well as his definition of psychosis, this study shows how Tilden"s alienation in the play stems from the foreclosure of the paternal metaphor in the symbolic registry of the psyche which, consequently, causes a malfunction in the process of oedipalization by leaving a hole in the Other where the Name-of-the-Father, as the metaphor for the law against incest, should appear. As a result, the subject is regressed to the imaginary where he can play the role of the phallus for the mother, which is manifested in the backstory of Buried Child as an act of incest between Tilden and Halie. Further, the incompetence of the father in the play in establishing the law is argued as being a circular curse that goes from generation to another.

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The classic Western and Sam Shepard’s family sagas

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Male Identity in Sam Shepardʼs Eyes for Consuela

Male Identity in Sam Shepardʼs Eyes for Consuela

of Tyranny and Martyrdom in Two plays Murder in Cathedral and Walls of Fear

Scratching an Invisible Limb A Lacanian Reading of Sam Shepard’s Buried Child

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