{"product_id":"9781498514873","title":"Intertextual Weaving in the Work of Linda Lê: Imagining the Ideal Reader","description":"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.","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47175620100336,"sku":"9781498514873","price":80.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781498514873_p0.jpg?v=1769896340","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781498514873","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}