@book{276f0406ff044204915033e8b5a54514,
title = "Intertextual weaving in the work of Linda L{\^e}: imagining the ideal reader",
abstract = "Intertextual Weaving in the Work of Linda L{\^e}: Imagining the Ideal Reader uncovers the primary textual relationship that Linda L{\^e} (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 L{\^e}'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 L{\^e}'s oeuvre. Intertextual analyses of Bachmann's post-war novel, Malina, with L{\^e}'s literary essays, early fiction, and trilogy, reveal that to overcome the challenges of writing in exile L{\^e} adopts an alternative literary fore-bear of the European tradition.",
keywords = "Linda L{\^e}, intertextuality, Ingeborg Bachmann, Postcolonial literature, Postwar exile writing, migrant writing, Feminist resistance, Antigone, Harold Bloom, Literary forebear",
author = "Alexandra Kurmann",
year = "2016",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781498514873",
series = "After the empire : the Francophone world and postcolonial France",
publisher = "Lexington Books",
}