Testing the limits of American science-fiction publishing: the case of Jim Grimsley's "Wendy"

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

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Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Testing the limits of American science-fiction publishing: the case of Jim Grimsley's "Wendy"

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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 &quot;Wendy,&quot; 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&apos;s Science Fiction in 2006 but it was &quot;killed&quot; by the publisher only a few weeks later, apparently for fear of public reaction. The present article explores the reasons for the publisher&apos;s decision, which was made shortly after the magazine was accused of containing &quot;strong adult content&quot; and &quot;explicit tales about sex, drugs, and molestation.&quot; 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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Testing the limits of American science-fiction publishing: the case of Jim Grimsley's "Wendy"

Popis výsledku anglicky

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 &quot;Wendy,&quot; 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&apos;s Science Fiction in 2006 but it was &quot;killed&quot; by the publisher only a few weeks later, apparently for fear of public reaction. The present article explores the reasons for the publisher&apos;s decision, which was made shortly after the magazine was accused of containing &quot;strong adult content&quot; and &quot;explicit tales about sex, drugs, and molestation.&quot; 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.

Druh

J_SC - Článek v periodiku v databázi SCOPUS

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

60206 - Specific literatures

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2020

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

AAA, Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik

ISSN

0171-5410

e-ISSN

—

Svazek periodika

45

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1

Stát vydavatele periodika

DE - Spolková republika Německo

Počet stran výsledku

15

Strana od-do

67-81

Kód UT WoS článku

000551469600005

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85091315960