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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Averis, Kate

Titel

'Irrémédiables étrangers': Lifelong Trajectories of Exile in the Late Works of Linda Lê

Ist Teil von

• L'Esprit créateur, 2023-12, Vol.63 (4), p.8-21

Ort / Verlag

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

Quelle

Project MUSE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This article examines the lifelong trajectories of exile in Lê's late works, Lame de fond (2012) and Je ne répondrai plus de rien (2021). Departing from a critical tendency to focus on the exilic identities of the young female protagonists that featured most prominently in Lê's early works, this article analyses Lê's contemplation of exile as a long-term condition in her late works. It concludes by drawing a parallel between these fictional texts and Lê's own lifelong, non-fictional construction of a 'lettered republic' of exiled, transient, and isolated writers that culminates in De personne je ne fus le contemporain (2022).