The thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in the field of study 035 «Philology». This study attempts to identify transcultural features of artistic space in the novels by a Native American writer Louise concentrates on the construction of space in Erdrich’s novels which manifest the interplay between archaic and modern Ojibwe, pan-Indian, American, western codesErdrich, which significantly reveals itself through key geocultural topoi and spatial architecture. The reason for the research was the lack of a holistic comprehensive analysis of the artistic space in contemporary Native American literature. Transcultural tools combined with spatial analysis are valuable for understanding the nature of contemporary works written by mix-blood indigenous authors such as Louise Erdrich, as spatiality is one of the primary agents that induces transcultural processes: making distances between cultures shorter, blurring boundaries, and forming contact zones. This project provided an important opportunity to advance the understanding of the spatiality in such text as it vividly articulates the concepts of roots, transition, borders, borderlands, migration, nomadism, home and homelessness, spaces of belonging and demonstrates a cross-pollination of cultural models. Geocritical, phenomenological, cultural, and mythopoetic, and semiotic approaches were adopted to provide an in-depth analysis of all the peculiarities which contribute to the transcultural character of spatiality in novels by Erdrich. The thesis highlighted the peculiarity and mechanisms of transculturalism as the theory of intercultural interaction in the era of globalization; it also confirmed that in Native American cultures and literatures spatiality plays a key role; it analized the geocultural topoi in the novels by Louise Erdrich and has shown the interplay between archaic and modern Ojibwe, pan-Indian, American, western codes. The study has demonstrated that Louise Erdrich aesthetically overcomes the binary of space, giving her characters a dual voice and the ability to represent and belong to several spatial and cultural paradigms, thus depicting the borderspace by undermining and blurring the border.
