Intertextual weaving in the work of Linda Lê: imagining the ideal reader

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    Abstract

    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.
    Original languageEnglish
    Place of PublicationLanham, USA
    PublisherLexington Books
    Number of pages183
    ISBN (Print)9781498514873
    Publication statusPublished - 2016

    Publication series

    NameAfter the empire : the Francophone world and postcolonial France
    PublisherLexington Books

    Keywords

    • Linda Lê
    • intertextuality
    • Ingeborg Bachmann
    • Postcolonial literature
    • Postwar exile writing
    • migrant writing
    • Feminist resistance
    • Antigone
    • Harold Bloom
    • Literary forebear

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