Returned to Sender Writing back to a Literary Precursor
- Publication type: Article from a collective work
- Collective work: Genre, Text and Language. Mélanges Anne Freadman
- Author: Kurmann (Alexandra)
- Pages: 423 to 451
- Collection: Encounters, n° 125
This paper argues that in composing Lettre morte, French-Vietnamese writer Linda Lê was influenced by the letter form in Ingeborg Bachmann’s novel Malina. In her own postcolonial text Lê writes back to Bachmann as a literary precursor in a bid to solve Malina’s post-war dilemma of female entrapment.
- CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques
- ISBN: 978-2-8124-3796-0
- EAN: 9782812437960
- ISSN: 2261-1851
- DOI: 10.15122/isbn.978-2-8124-3796-0.p.0423
- Publisher: Classiques Garnier
- Online publication: 05-04-2016
- Language: English
