Meaning Perpetually Deferred: Indeterminacy in Sam Shepard's Buried Child

This article aims at applying Derrida’s idea I on the Sam Shepard’s play, Buried Child. Derrida’s notion of I, consisting of the words to defer and to differ, disturbs the presence of any stable meaning so that meaning becomes a signifier which never reaches a signified. It is forever fallen into the trap of I, causing the meaning to defer. Moreover, signified is always deferred, and we are just dealing with play of signifiers. This is actually, what happens in Shepard’s Buried Child. Identity, characters, and significant concepts (Buried Child) for them find an unstable and changing nature. Nothing is determinate about them.