The Wind Done Gone (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Alice Randall
- First Published: 2001
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 1845-1877
- Setting: Atlanta, Georgia; Tata, a cotton plantation (Tara of ); Washington, D.C.
- Principal Characters: Cynara Brown, Mammy, R., Other, Lady, Planter, Miss Priss, Garlic, Mrs. Garlic, Beauty, Dreamy Gentleman, Mealy Mouth, Jeems, The Congressman
- Genres: Long fiction, Domestic realism, Historical fiction, Parody
- Subjects: African Americans, North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Racism, Biracial people, South or Southerners, Nineteenth century, Slavery or slaves, Plantations or plantation life, Georgia, Washington, D.C., Sisters, Reconstruction
- Locales: Atlanta, GA, Washington, D.C.
The Wind Done Gone sparked heated argument even before it was published. The estate of Margaret Mitchell, author of Gone with the Wind (1936), filed suit in March, 2001, to block publication, claiming that Alice Randall’s book is an unauthorized sequel to Mitchell’s classic romance and tribute to the antebellum South. Estate lawyers claiming copyright infringement charged that Randall stole Gone with the Winds plot, characters, settings, and scenes and even plagiarized some passages. Randall and her publisher argued on appeal that her book is a literary parody...
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