Linda Lê After the Millennium
Author Study Day: 17th June 2016, IMLR, London
With an exclusive reading by Linda Lê
Linda Lê has produced a rich and fascinating body of work, for which she has won prestigious literary prizes including the Prix Renaudot Poche, the Prix Wepler, and a nomination for the Prix Goncourt. This event brings together leading international Lê scholars and focuses on her writing since the millennium. The day will culminate with a reading of unpublished material by the author.
Programme:
10:00 Tea/Coffee and welcome
10:30-12:00 Panel 1 Intertextuality and Autotextuality/Intertextualité et Autotextualité
Michèle Bacholle-Bošković, Eastern Connecticut State University: 'Œuvres vives et survivants'
Alex Kurmann, Macquarie University, Sydney: 'Austrian Literary Spectres in the "maison hantée" of Lê's Intertextual Œuvre'
Thanh-Vân Ton That, Université Paris-Est Créteil: 'Between the Novel and the Short Story: Echoes and Rewriting by Linda Lê around the Father Figure'
12:00-13:15 Lunch (own arrangements)
13:15 – 14:45 Panel 2 Gender, Genre, Self and Other/Genre, Moi et l'Autre
Alison Rice, University of Notre Dame: '"L." Linda Lê's Literary Longing'
Kate Averis, University of London in Paris: '(In)corporeality and Gender Alterity in Les Aubes (2000) and In memoriam (2007)'
Rebecca Rosenberg, Université de Nantes: 'Maternal Influence: The Power of Mother Figures in A l'enfant que je n'aurai pas (2011) and Lame de fond (2012)
14:45-15:15 Tea/Coffee (provided)
15:15 – 16:15 Joint Reading Workshop: Cronos (2010) – women writing violence
16:15 – 17:15 Linda Lê: Author reading followed by questions
17:15 Vin d’honneur
Room 104, Senate House, London WC1E WHU. Attendance is free but please register for attendance and participation by emailing the organiser: gillian.1.ni_cheallaigh@kcl.ac.uk