![]() ![]() Her novel The Wind Done Gone tells the story of Gone With the Wind from the perspective of the daughter of Mammy and Gerald O’Hara and thus the half sister of Scarlett O’Hara. In 2001 Alice Randall, a Harvard literature graduate and Nashville, Tennessee, writer of songs and scripts, set out to put the record straight. For them, Gone With the Windhas little to tell us about the real experiences of African Americans in the South during and after the Civil War. Many readers, however, especially African Americans, have complained that the novel is one-sided that it demeans the role of Black people and that its portrayals of such characters as Mammy and Prissy are racist stereotypes. ![]() Its sweeping, romantic story of the South and the Civil War (1861-65) has entranced readers since the day of its publication. Few novels have captured the popular American imagination more strongly than Margaret Mitchell’s 1936 book, Gone With the Wind. ![]()
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