АМЕРИЧКИ ПОСТМОДЕРНИ ИДЕНТИТЕТ(И): ПЕРФОРМАНС, ПАРОДИЈА, ПЕРВЕРЗИЈА, ПАД У ДРАМАМА СЕМА ШЕПАРДА ИЛИ СИРОТИ МАЛИ КАУБОЈ СÂМ У ПУСТИЊИ
POSTMODERN AMERICAN IDENTITY(IES): PERFORMANCE, PARODY, PERVERSION, DOWNFALL IN SAM SHEPARD’S PLAYS: A POOR LITTLE COWBOY ALONE IN THE DESERT

Summary/Abstract: This paper investigates the way in which one of the canonical American playwrights, Sam Shepard, perceives the role of existential fear, performance and the “original sin” in shaping both personal and collective identities of Anglo-Americans. America and its people in Shepard’s plays have, in our analysis, been scrutinised through the lenses of postmodern theories, as well as the theories of the most prominent philosophers delving into the modern capitalist society and culture at the turn of the century. The bold insights of Baudrillard, Foucault and Jameson into what we might call the text of the modern cultural moment, their theories of simulacrum and hyperreality, power and postmodernity as the cultural logic of late capitalism, have been the theoretical grounds for our examination of the expression of the modern US culture in Shepard’s plays.

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