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

By Alexandra Kurmann

Acknowledgments 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. Works by Ingeborg Bachman
   1. English Translations
   2. French Translations
2. Works by Linda Lê
   1. English Translations
   2. Vietnamese Translations
3. Secondary Literature

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