Intertextual Weaving in the Work of Linda Lê

Alexandra Kurmann researches and lectures in French and Francophone studies at Macquarie University, Sydney.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Weaving of an Intertextual WebIntertextual WeavingAppropriation and SubstitutionTransformative ImitationIncorporationChapter 1: Tissé avec une patience de PénélopeExilic IntersectionsErsatz Homes in Language and LiteratureLiterary BelongingChapter 2: Appropriating the PrecursorAnother Ingeborg BachmannIngeborg Bachmann, an Inferno of EnigmasJ’écris sur la nature du feuAn Antigonean BachmannIncorruptible DesireThe Entombed Voice of Female ResistanceChapter 3: Malina as Textual GenesisPhantom Literary OriginsLe registre du mytheLe registre du rêveChapter 4: Dead LettersFugitive LettersWriting Back to BachmannChapter 5: Incorporating the Ideal ReaderSplit SelvesThe Third SiteAntigone’s DoublesConclusion: La tâche de l’écrivainBibliographyPrimary LiteratureWorks by Ingeborg BachmanEnglish TranslationsFrench TranslationsWorks by Linda LêEnglish TranslationsVietnamese TranslationsSecondary Literature

Intertextuality 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.