مجلة البحوث التربوية والتعليمية
Volume 12, Numéro 2, Pages 55-64
2023-12-24
Revisiting Little House On The Prairie In Louise Erdrich’s The Birchbark House: Hidden Polemic
Authors : Chekkal Hala .
Abstract
This conference paper examines the polemical overtones in Louise Erdrich’s The Birchbark House as an oblique response to Laura Wilder’s Little House on the Prairie. It addresses the question of how Erdrich revisits the racialized ‘Frontier’ narrative against Native Americans in Wilder’s novel. It aims to present a Bakhtinian reading to unravel the double-voiced discourse and hidden polemic in The Birchbark House against Little House on the Prairie. The central line of argument is that Erdrich employs both the standard storytelling strategies used by Wilder herself and innovative ones, unique to Erdrich’s personal stylization. Erdrich adopts Wilder ‘s choice of setting, characterization and pencil vignettes, yet going beyond that, she creates a distinguished Native American voice through a circular narrative, a depth in characterization, and a rich Ojibwe oral language. For these ends, I will root my close analytical reading of both novels in Bakhtin’s notions of Hidden Polemic and double-voiced discourse.
Keywords
Hidden Polemic ; Influence ; Intertextuality ; Native American Literature
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