The Wind Done Gone.The Wind Done Gone by Alice Randal Houghton Mifflin Houghton Mifflin Company is a leading educational publisher in the United States. The company's headquarters is located in Boston's Back Bay. It publishes textbooks, instructional technology materials, assessments, reference works, and fiction and non-fiction for both young readers , June 2001, $23.00, ISBN ISBN abbr. International Standard Book Number ISBN International Standard Book Number ISBN n abbr (= International Standard Book Number) → ISBN m 0-618-10450-X The astounding a·stound tr.v. a·stound·ed, a·stound·ing, a·stounds To astonish and bewilder. See Synonyms at surprise. [From Middle English astoned, past participle of astonen, literary invention The Wind Done Gone clearly has the makings of controversy. It revisits Margaret Mitchell's American classic Gone With the Wind. Alice Randall's tale of the antebellum South (from an African American African American Multiculture A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa. See Race. point of view) has inspired both sprited discussion and litigation An action brought in court to enforce a particular right. The act or process of bringing a lawsuit in and of itself; a judicial contest; any dispute. When a person begins a civil lawsuit, the person enters into a process called litigation. from Margaret Mitchell's estate. Anytime an author approaches a revisionist re·vi·sion·ism n. 1. Advocacy of the revision of an accepted, usually long-standing view, theory, or doctrine, especially a revision of historical events and movements. 2. story based on a classic, there is bound to be criticism. In this case, however, The Wind Done Gone rises to the occasion and crafts a compelling story based on an already familiar setting from a perspective yet to be explored before now. If Scarlett O'Hara had an illegitimate mulatto MULATTO. A person born of one white and one black parent. 7 Mass. R. 88; 2 Bailey, 558. sister, this is her story. It's the life of Cynara (also referred to as Cinammon or Cindy), written in the form of a diary and told in an engaging and poetic style. Cynara is the illegitimate child of Mammy and Planter, the master of Cotton Farm, a plantation a day's ride from Atlanta. All her life Cynara longs for the love her mother Mammy must give to her white sister, Other. She longs for nurtuing that is by birth her own, but by law belongs to her sister. Cynara's silent rivalry with her sister, Other continues until death. She feels that Other has taken away her most precious gift ... her mother's love. Cynara wants the love that Mammy has set aside only for Other, Leading to a lifelong troubled mother-daughter relationship. As Cynara grows into her own, she becomes a well-traveled, intelligent, resourceful woman who has succeeded in separating from the ways of the "Old South", but is constantly burdened by the damaging effects of her early life as a slave. As The Wind Done Gone unfolds, Cynara must look to her inner-self to find answers. She is forced to evaluate her relationhships and see her true self. The Wind Done Gone is a beautifully written story sure to capture the heart and souls of readers. Randall has breathed life into a story silenced for too long. |
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