Intertextual Weaving in the Work of Linda Lê: Imagining the Ideal Reader

By Alexandra Kurmann

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

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1498514863
• ISBN13: 9781498514866
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"