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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIntertextuality is particularly integral to Linda Leˆ’s oeuvre, and more studies exploring in detail the multidirectional web of influences operating in Leˆ’s writing are long overdue.... [W]ell researched, intelligent, and at times elegant, this book enriches our understanding of these important writers, and takes Leˆ studies beyond familiar themes of exile, loss, and postcolonialism to a timely recognition of her implicit feminist ethics. * French Studies *
Scholars have recognized the vast intertextual network that subtends Linda Lê’s fiction, but Kurmann is the first to give it the sustained attention it deserves. Engaging and deeply researched, her book is a welcome addition to a growing body of criticism that sees Lê’s work as mediating between postcolonial and modernist literatures, allowing for fruitful reinterpretations of both. -- Leslie Barnes, The Austrailian National University
Intertextual Weaving in the Work of Linda Lê is a remarkable analysis of the literary writing of Linda Lê in its sustained construction of intertextual relations with other thinkers, artists, poets, and writers including those established with the Austrian poet, Ingeborg Bachman. Kurmann’s book will mark an enduring contribution to the ways in which Lê is viewed, understood and analyzed by scholars and taught in our classrooms as well as to French studies, more generally. Her exemplary scholarship, careful attention to textual detail, and insightful, often brilliant close readings will provide a model for those who are certain to follow in the fertile path she here opens. -- Jane Bradley Winston, Northwestern University
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: The Weaving of an Intertextual Web Intertextual Weaving Appropriation and Substitution Transformative Imitation Incorporation Chapter 1: Tissé avec une patience de Pénélope Exilic Intersections Ersatz Homes in Language and Literature Literary Belonging Chapter 2: Appropriating the Precursor Another Ingeborg Bachmann Ingeborg Bachmann, an Inferno of Enigmas J’écris sur la nature du feu An Antigonean Bachmann Incorruptible Desire The Entombed Voice of Female Resistance Chapter 3: Malina as Textual Genesis Phantom Literary Origins Le registre du mythe Le registre du rêve Chapter 4: Dead Letters Fugitive Letters Writing Back to Bachmann Chapter 5: Incorporating the Ideal Reader Split Selves The Third Site Antigone’s Doubles Conclusion: La tâche de l’écrivain Bibliography 1.Primary Literature 1.1Works by Ingeborg Bachman 1.1.1English Translations 1.1.2French Translations 1.2Works by Linda Lê 1.2.1English Translations 1.2.2Vietnamese Translations 2.Secondary Literature
