Tikrit University

Breaking the Grand Narrative in Sam Shepard’s “Buried Child”: A Postmodern Study

Document Type : Original Article

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Tikrit University -College of Education for Women-English Department

10.25130/Lang.8.5.19
Abstract
This study explains the collapse and the break of the Grand narrative in Sam Shepard’s “Buried Child” through a postmodern lens. The analysis examines how the play reflects the situations in which the acknowledged Grand narrative is broken inside the little unity of the society, the American family and its consequences. This study argues that “Buried Child” is a well-known and important work of postmodern literature generally that exposes the effects of breaking the Grand narrative’s effects on the individuals of the postmodern era. This study explains postmodernism, the pioneer of the concept of Grand narrative, and how Sam Shepard depicted them in his play.

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