Postmodern Elements in Select Plays of Sam Shepard

Sam Shepard is often considered as one of the most celebrated postmodern American playwrights. The book has critically explored the postmodern elements in select twelve plays of Sam Shepard from a literary perspective. Sam Shepard celebrates the possibility of multiple meanings within a single literary work and he deals with a subjective approach emphasizing more on destructured, decentred and dehumanized subjects in many of his plays. A blurring of the distinction between genres, fragmented narrations, pastiche, metafiction, intertextuality, historiographic metafiction, black humour, schizophrenia, faction, and self-reflexivity in writing are the major postmodern elements which have been observed in his early, middle and later plays.