A "host" and "symbiont" text: the function and the limits of parody debated.

The controllers of the estate of Margaret Mitchell, the author of
Gone With the Wind, attempted (unsuccessfully) to stop the publication of The Wind Done Gone: A Novel (Houghton-Mifflin 2001), by Alice Randall, claiming that it is an unauthorized sequel.

See HM's public relation piece at www.thewinddonegone.com for one view.

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