Testing the limits of American science-fiction publishing: the case of Jim Grimsley's "Wendy"
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F70883521%3A28150%2F20%3A63526632" target="_blank" >RIV/70883521:28150/20:63526632 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://elibrary.narr.digital/article/10.2357/AAA-2020-0014" target="_blank" >https://elibrary.narr.digital/article/10.2357/AAA-2020-0014</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2357/AAA-2020-0014" target="_blank" >10.2357/AAA-2020-0014</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Testing the limits of American science-fiction publishing: the case of Jim Grimsley's "Wendy"
Original language description
For southern writer Jim Grimsley, child abuse in all its forms has always been an important theme, though he sometimes ran into difficulties selling his work to publishers. His science-fiction short story "Wendy," a story of a sadistic pedophile who assembles a girl out of body parts grown for transplantation, but then tries to prove that she is not human so that he can continue to abuse her, was accepted for publication by the editor of Asimov's Science Fiction in 2006 but it was "killed" by the publisher only a few weeks later, apparently for fear of public reaction. The present article explores the reasons for the publisher's decision, which was made shortly after the magazine was accused of containing "strong adult content" and "explicit tales about sex, drugs, and molestation." Methodologically, the article demonstrates how literary scholarship can make use of tools for preserving historical versions of online material, namely the tracked history of Wikipedia pages and Internet discussion forums archived by the Internet Archive Wayback Machine.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60206 - Specific literatures
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
AAA, Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik
ISSN
0171-5410
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
45
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
DE - GERMANY
Number of pages
15
Pages from-to
67-81
UT code for WoS article
000551469600005
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85091315960