The Sense of Loss: Postmodern Fragmented Identity in Three Plays of Sam Shepard

Sam shepard is one of the foremost living american playwrights. he hasalways been concerned with the problem of identity, specifically thefragmented identity of man living in the postmodern era. suchcharacterization is evident in his plays: true west, fool for love, and a lieof the mind. thus, the present article is to demonstrate the fragmentedidentity of lee and austin, eddie and may, and jake and beth, in the threeplays respectively. fredric jameson asserts that the reason for the fragmentedidentity is lack of any coherent relationship with the past. the mentionedcharacters are depicted as being lost in the perpetual images, with no clearbond to past.