Dialogism or Interconnectedness in the Work of Louise Erdrich

Year 2020, Issue: 54, 135 - 137, 01.11.2020

Meldan Tanrısal

Abstract

Dialogism or Interconnectedness in the Work of Louise Erdrich,
by Polish scholar Marta Lysik, is a profound investigation of Louise Erdrich’s writing. The title explains the essence of the detailed, six-chapter
book: Mikhail Bakhtin’s dialogism, that is, interconnectedness, as seen
in Erdrich’s selected works. In the introduction, Lysik states: “This study
is not a veiled biographical project, but an attempt to view the selected
literary works as one entity while paying attention to its singular elements, among them the writer’s insights into the processes of writing
and reading” (2). Lysik informs the reader about the writer’s life and
her relationship with her husband—specifically their collaboration and
failed marriage—but that is kept to a minimum, as she concentrates on
Erdrich’s practices of reading, writing, co-writing, and rewriting her
works, which she analyzes thoroughly as a single entity.

Keywords

Dialogism, Interconnectedness, Louise Erdrich