Intertextual Weaving in the Work of Linda Le - Imagining the Ideal Reader (Hardcover)

Intertextual Weaving in the Work of Linda Le: Imagining the Ideal Reader uncovers the primary textual relationship that Linda Le (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 Le'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 Le's oeuvre. Intertextual analyses of Bachmann's post-war novel, Malina, with Le's literary essays, early fiction, and trilogy, reveal that to overcome the challenges of writing in exile Le adopts an alternative literary fore-bear of the European tradition.

General

Imprint:	Lexington Books
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
Release date:	2016
Authors:	Alexandra Kurmann
Dimensions:	239 x 158 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	194
ISBN-13:	978-1-4985-1486-6
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900
LSN:	1-4985-1486-3
Barcode:	9781498514866

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