{"product_id":"9781498514866","title":"Intertextual Weaving in the Work of Linda Lê : Imagining the Ideal Reader (After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France)","description":"\u003cp\u003eIntertextual 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49468949364963,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0764\/3758\/6147\/files\/9781498514866-1.jpg?v=1788390041","url":"https:\/\/usa.kinokuniya.com\/products\/9781498514866","provider":"Books Kinokuniya USA","version":"1.0","type":"link"}