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Bruccoli, Founding Editor Linda Wagner-Martin, Series Editor  \nVolumes on  \nEdward Albee | Sherman Alexie | Nelson Algren | Paul Auster Nicholson Baker | John Barth | Donald Barthelme | The Beats Thomas Berger | The Black Mountain Poets | Robert Bly  \nT. C. Boyle | Raymond Carver | Fred Chappell | Chicano Literature Contemporary American Drama | Contemporary American Horror Fiction Contemporary American Literary Theory Contemporary American Science Fiction, 1926–1970  \nContemporary American Science Fiction, 1970–2000  \nContemporary Chicana Literature | Robert Coover | Philip K. Dick James Dickey | E. L. Doctorow | Rita Dove | John Gardner | George Garrett Tim Gautreaux | John Hawkes | Joseph Heller | Lillian Hellman | Beth Henley James Leo Herlihy | John Irving | Randall Jarrell | Charles Johnson Diane Johnson | Adrienne Kennedy | William Kennedy | Jack Kerouac Jamaica Kincaid | Etheridge Knight | Tony Kushner | Ursula K. Le Guin Denise Levertov | Bernard Malamud | David Mamet | Bobbie Ann Mason Colum McCann | Cormac McCarthy | Jill McCorkle | Carson McCullers  \nW. S. Merwin | Arthur Miller | Lorrie Moore | Toni Morrison’s Fiction Vladimir Nabokov | Gloria Naylor | Joyce Carol Oates | Tim O’Brien Flannery O’Connor | Cynthia Ozick | Suzan-Lori Parks | Walker Percy Katherine Anne Porter | Richard Powers | Reynolds Price | Annie Proulx Thomas Pynchon | Theodore Roethke | Philip Roth | May Sarton Hubert Selby, Jr. | Mary Lee Settle | Sam Shepard | Neil Simon Isaac Bashevis Singer | Jane Smiley | Gary Snyder | William Stafford Robert Stone | Anne Tyler | Gerald Vizenor | Kurt Vonnegut David Foster Wallace | Robert Penn Warren | James Welch Eudora Welty | Tennessee Williams | August Wilson | Charles Wright  \nUnderstanding  \nSam Shepard  \nJames A. Crank  \nThe University of South Carolina Press  \n© 2012 University of South Carolina  \nPublished by the University of South Carolina Press Columbia, South Carolina 29208  \n[www.sc.edu/uscpress](www.sc.edu/uscpress)  \n21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:  \nCrank, James A.  \nUnderstanding Sam Shepard / James A. Crank.  \n[p. cm](p. cm).—(Understanding contemporary American literature) Includes bibliographical references and index.  \nISBN 978-1-61117-106-8 (cloth)  \n1. Shepard, Sam, 1943– —Criticism and interpretation. I. Title. PS3569.H394Z668 2012  \n812 '.54—dc23  \n2012021977  \nISBN 978-1-61117-187-7 (ebook)  \nFor Jeff, my anchor  \nContents  \nSeries Editor’s Preface ix Acknowledgments xi  \nChapter 1  \nUnderstanding Sam Shepard 1  \nChapter 2  \nExperimentations with Sound, Language, and Myth: The Early Plays, 1964–1976 18  \nChapter 3  \nDivining the Cure: Curse of the Starving Class 35  \nChapter 4  \nHidden Trespasses: Buried Child 57  \nChapter 5  \nThe Authentic Family: True West 81 Chapter 6  \nChaos and Connection: The Later Works, 1983–2009 101  \nNotes 119  \nSelect Bibliography 125  \nIndex 131  \nseries editor’s prefaCe  \nThe Understanding Contemporary American Literature series was founded by the estimable Matthew J. Bruccoli ( 1931–2008), who envisioned these volumes as guides or companions for students as well as good nonacademic readers, a legacy which will continue as new volumes are developed to fill in gaps among the nearly one hundred series volumes published to date and to embrace a host of new writers only now making their marks on our literature.  \nAs Professor Bruccoli explained in his preface to the volumes he edited, because much influential contemporary literature makes special demands,“the word understanding in the titles was chosen deliberately. 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