Intertextual Weaving in the Work of Linda Lê

Download or read book Intertextual Weaving in the Work of Linda Lê written by Alexandra Kurmann and published by After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.