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Abstract
This thesis aims at discussing Carr’s major plays from a postmodern perspective where the selected literary works engage with historically significant constructions of Irish identity and psyche as well. It also seeks to explore themes of gender, family, and midlands in Carr’s The Mai & Ariel. In the analysis of those two plays, the study applies an approach inspired by Gennep’s anthropological theory lately taken up by Victor Turner to discuss the liminal spaces, which blur the distinctions between the modern world and the otherworld of myths and ghosts as an individual’s temporary separation from rigid social structures. In addition, the thesis examines themes of self-alienation, exile, marginalization, and grotesque in Carr’s By the Bog of Cats in the light of Kristeva’s theory of abjection. It intends to prove the link between themes of abjection and grotesque ; besides, the study investigates how death became a sole, ultimate solution for the marginalized people, who inhabit boggy territories in the middle of Ireland. Hence, this study gives a great deal to the applied psychoanalytical and anthropological approaches to the selected works of drama in order to provide an exact reading of Carr’s suggested model of identity building based on a rewriting of the past with its myths. Moreover, it examines the struggle between the old and modern Ireland embodied in the powerful theme of tradition versus modernity transforming the social world of the plays’ protagonists, and how Ireland moved away from its old identity towards a recent one during the Celtic Tiger, the time of economic prosperity with its social changes at the end of the last twentieth century. Ultimately, the current thesis studies some distinguished techniques of postmodernism applied by Carr in her selected plays such as intertextuality, grotesque, and narrative technique.