Intertextual Weaving in the Work of Linda Lê
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Intertextual Weaving in the Work of Linda Lê

Imagining the Ideal Reader

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Intertextual Weaving in the Work of Linda Lê

Imagining the Ideal Reader

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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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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Acknowledgements
  3. Introduction: The Weaving of an Intertextual Web
  4. Chapter 1: Tissé avec une patience de Pénélope
  5. Chapter 2: Appropriating the Precursor
  6. Chapter 3: Malina as Textual Genesis
  7. Chapter 4: Dead Letters
  8. Chapter 5: Incorporating the Ideal Reader
  9. Conclusion: La tâche de l’écrivain
  10. Bibliography
  11. Index