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In this daring and provocative literary parody which has captured the interest and imagination of a nation, Alice Randall explodes the world created in Gone With the Wind, a work that more than any other has defined our image of the antebellum South.

Taking sharp aim at the romanticized, whitewashed mythology perpetrated by this southern classic, Randall has ingeniously conceived a multilayered, emotionally complex tale of her own — that of Cynara, the mulatto half-sister, who, beautiful and brown and born into slavery, manages to break away from the damaging world of the Old South to emerge into full life as a daughter, a lover, a mother, a victor.

The Wind Done Gone is a passionate love story, a wrenching portrait of a tangled mother-daughter relationship, and a book that "celebrates a people's emancipation not only from bondage but also from history and myth, custom and stereotype" (San Antonio Express-News).

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In an inspired act of literary invention, Alice Randall supplies the story that has been missing from Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind. Imagine that the black characters in Mitchell's tale were other than one-dimensional stereotypes, and that Scarlett O'Hara had an illegitimate mulatto sister, and that this sister gets to tell her story.
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Alice Randall was born in Detroit and graduated from Harvard in 1981. After a start as a journalist in Washington, D.C., she moved to Nashville to become a country songwriter. The only African-American woman ever to write a number-one country song, she has had more than twenty songs recorded. She is also a screenwriter and has worked on adaptations of Their Eyes Were Watching God, Parting the Waters, and Br'er Rabbit. Randall first read Gone With the Wind when she was twelve and loved the novel. Years later, a question came to trouble her: where were the mulatto children of Tara? It was a question that interested her personally: she is of mixed-race ancestry and has been told that her great-great-grandfather was Confederate General Edmund Pettus. The Wind Done Gone is Alice Randall's first novel.
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Andrea Nicolaides, March 8, 2011 (view all comments by Andrea Nicolaides)
As a teenager in New Orleans during the very early 60's, I read Margaret Mitchell's "Gone With The Wind" every summer and was swept away by the romance. As a white teenager in a still segregated city, I really didn't know much about the Civil War except as a reason to sing "Dixie" and yell, "The South Shall Rise Again" at any opportunity. Once I began college, real history became a passion and my silly attachment to Mitchell's book weakened. Many years later I found Alice Randall's "The Wind Done Gone" and wept for my early teenage naiveté. It is both prequel and sequel to GWTW. Cynara, the heroine, is a truly unforgettable character, and her struggles as a child and as a woman are hard, as is the slavery she was born to. Randall's insertion of Cynara's story into the gaps left by GWTW allows her to make visible a subject suspiciously missing from Mitchell's novel--the offspring of sexual relations between Blacks and Whites.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780618219063
Author:
Randall, Alice
Publisher:
Mariner Books
Location:
Boston
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Historical
Subject:
Historical - General
Subject:
Historical fiction
Subject:
Racially mixed people
Subject:
Literature-A to Z
Copyright:
2001
Edition Description:
Trade paper
Publication Date:
April 2002
Binding:
TRADE PAPER
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
224
Dimensions:
8.25 x 5.5 in 0.49 lb
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"Synopsis" by , In an inspired act of literary invention, Alice Randall supplies the story that has been missing from Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind. Imagine that the black characters in Mitchell's tale were other than one-dimensional stereotypes, and that Scarlett O'Hara had an illegitimate mulatto sister, and that this sister gets to tell her story.
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