Intertextual weaving in the work of Linda Lé : imagining the ideal reader / Alexandra Kurmann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kurmann, Alexandra, author.

Series:

After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lê, Linda--Criticism and interpretation.

Lê, Linda.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (195 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Intertextual Weaving in the Work of Linda Lê: Imaging the Ideal Reader uncovers and explores the sixteen-year intertextual relationship fostered by the Vietnamese-Francophone writer in French exile Linda Lê with a self-chosen literary precursor, the Austrian poet-turned-writer Ingeborg Bachmann. Spanning French and German language literatures of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, this book reveals transnational and trans-linguistic connections between the Francophone postcolonial and post-World War II literary worlds.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: The Weaving of an Intertextual Web; Chapter 1: Tissé avec une patience de Pénélope; Chapter 2: Appropriating the Precursor; Chapter 3: Malina as Textual Genesis; Chapter 4: Dead Letters; Chapter 5: Incorporating the Ideal Reader; Conclusion: La tâche de l'écrivain; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4985-1487-1

OCLC:

932066595