Intertextual Weaving in the Work of Linda Lê: Imagining the Ideal Reader (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781498514866)

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.

Author: Alexandra Kurmann
ISBN-10: 1498514863
ISBN-13: 9781498514866
Publisher: Lexington Books
Language: English
Published: 01/14/2016
Pages: 194
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.80d