المعيار
Volume 16, Numéro 1, Pages 666-680
2025-06-01
Exploring Destructive Patriarchy And Subversive Ideological Forces In Sam Shepard’s Curse Of The Starving Class (1977) And Buried Child (1978).
Authors : Mechta Amina . Kaced Assia .
Abstract
The present article explores the theme of destructive patriarchal authority and patriarchy’s disruptive ideological forces in Sam Shepard’s plays Curse of the Starving Class (1977) and Buried Child (1978)) in the light of Louis Althusser’s theory of ideology and Roland Barthes’ semiotic theory of myth. It investigates how the failure father figures, Weston in Curse of the Starving Class and Dodge in Buried Child are exerting violence and destructive authority to compensate for their inability to meet the social, economic and cultural assumptions. This article reveals the way the fathers’ oppressive authority has contributed to family disintegration, identity crises, and alienation. It uncovers the deceitful ideological nature of American established foundational myths, which in reality are based on ideological domination and masked as universal truths.
Keywords
Sam Shepard, Buried Child, Curse of the Starving Class, patriarchy, authority, ideology, myth, Althusser, Barthes.
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