Talk:Kathy Acker

Latest comment: 22 days ago by Totorotroll in topic Banned in South Africa?

IS this electronic literature?

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@LijilWhat do you think? Should Kathy Acker be classified as electronic literature? She does have a print book of email correspondence (Kathy Acker’s pioneering adventures in the internet’s erogenous zone | Fiction | The Guardian) and her works were repackaged into an elit piece that was reviewed in the Electronic Book Review, but I am really not sure about this one? LoveElectronicLiterature (talk) 19:20, 22 June 2025 (UTC)Reply

I don't think so - not unless there is a reliable source stating that she is an electronic literature writer or critic. Lots of borderline cases... but I think going with the standard wikipedia rule of "if reliable, independent sources say so" is actually useful for this kind of distinction. Lijil (talk) 21:08, 22 June 2025 (UTC)Reply
Yes, I think you are right. I am going to leave the electronic lit derivative work in this article and put it in another heading to clarify that this is not Kathy Acker's original work. Then I am going to delete the categorization. I think we should keep this as a part of the WP:ELIT on the talk pages just because we do have an electronic literature work mentioned here. LoveElectronicLiterature (talk) 14:59, 23 June 2025 (UTC)Reply

Banned in South Africa?

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I bought a copy of Blood & Guts in High School in the CNA in Durban in 1986, it wasn't banned at that point. Is there a reference for the novel having being banned in South Africa? Totorotroll (talk) 03:33, 26 May 2026 (UTC)Reply