Intertextual Weaving in the Work of Linda Le : Imagining the Ideal Reader Hardback
by Alexandra Kurmann
Part of the After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France series
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Intertextual Weaving in the Work of Linda Lê: Imagining the Ideal Reader uncovers the primary textual relationship that Linda Lê (1963– ), the most prolific Francophone author of the Vietnamese diaspora, fosters with a literary precursor of Austrian descent: the feminist writer-in-exile, Ingeborg Bachmann (1926–1973).
This study offers an overdue exploration of the notably European roots of Lê’s writerly formation.
It traces an unexamined feminist import in her work to a sixteen-year inter- and intra-textual engagement with Bachmann and positions the latter as an imagined ideal reader of Lê’s oeuvre.
Intertextual analyses of Bachmann’s post-war novel, Malina, with Lê’s literary essays, early fiction, and trilogy, reveal that to overcome the challenges of writing in exile Lê adopts an alternative literary fore-bear of the European tradition.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:194 pages
- Publisher:Lexington Books
- Publication Date:14/01/2016
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- ISBN:9781498514866
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:194 pages
- Publisher:Lexington Books
- Publication Date:14/01/2016
- Category:
- ISBN:9781498514866
