THE STUDY OF DISINTEGRATION IN SHEPARD'S FOOL FOR LOVE

Abstract

Disintegration has a great role in Sam Shepard's plays. This is quite clear in Fool for Love (1983), a family play written by him. This play is also a postmodern play. This research has also benefitted from the theory Jean Baudrillard's postmodernist theory and also Jean François Lyotard's postmodernist theory of Fall of Grand Narratives. There are some grand narratives or myths that are subverted in the play. American family, American identity .American family is in decline in the play through abandonment, alcoholism, having duel relations outside the frame of family and following the propagandist American dream by male characters. Gender identity is a significant concern of the play. May's resistance to go with Eddie to his fantastic dreamy land for living, her rejection of Eddie's male version of story and Eddie's willingness to approve May's story as the real reality of their past are some instances of her subversion of masculine mythic codes. The play consists of plays or stories within the main play or story. The findings of the study show that a simulated postmodern world is depicted in the play in which reproductions of the real take its place