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The Wind Is Never Gone This page intentionally left blank The Wind Is Never Gone Sequels, Parodies and Rewritings of Gone with the Wind M. CARMEN GÓMEZ-GALISTEO McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers Jefferson, North Carolina, and London LIBRARYOFCONGRESSCATALOGUING-IN-PUBLICATIONDATA Gómez-Galisteo, M. Carmen, ¡982– The wind is never gone : sequels, parodies and rewritings of Gone with the wind/ M. Carmen Gómez-Galisteo. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-7864-5927-8 softcover : 50# alkaline paper ¡. Mitchell, Margaret, 1900–1949. Gone with the wind. 2. Mitchell, Margaret, 1900–1949.—Parodies, imitations, etc.— History and criticism. 3. Mitchell, Margaret, 1900–1949.— Adaptations. 4. Mitchell, Margaret, 1900–1949.—Influence. 5. African Americans in literature. 6. Slavery in literature. 7. Plantation life in literature. I. Title. PS3525.I972G68275 2011 813'.52—dc23 2011017368 BRITISHLIBRARYCATALOGUINGDATAAREAVAILABLE © 2011M. Carmen Gómez-Galisteo. All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying or recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. Front cover image: Clark Gable as Rhett Butler and Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O’Hara in Gone with the Wind, 1939 (MGM/Photofest) Manufactured in the United States of America McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers Box 6¡¡, Je›erson, North Carolina 28640 www.mcfarlandpub.com To my parents and sister, with love This page intentionally left blank Table of Contents Preface 1 Introduction: I Have Been Unfaithful to Thee, Scarlett! 3 1. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell 15 2. To Be Continued: Scarlett by Alexandra Ripley and the Failed Sequels Commissioned to Emma Tennant and Pat Conroy 36 3. Copyright Not Gone with the Wind 55 4. The Gone with the Wind Parodies: The Wind Done Gone by Alice Randall and “Frankly, Scarlett, I Do Give a Damn” by Beverly West and Nancy Peske 79 5. Rhett Butler’s Side of the Story: Rhett Butler’s People by Donald McCaig 107 6. Gone with the Wind Fan Fiction 124 7. The Gone with the Wind Canon 155 Conclusion: Is It Gone with the Wind? 173 Bibliography 183 Index 203 vii This page intentionally left blank Preface With the spirit of her people who would not know defeat, even when it stared them in the face, she raised her chin. She could get Rhett back. She knew she could. There had never been a man she couldn’t get, once she set her mind upon him. “I’ll think of it all tomorrow, at Tara. I can stand it then. Tomorrow, I’ll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day.”1 Three quarters of a century after its original publication in 1936, Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell has never fallen out of print. It has become an icon of American culture and it has met with similar success abroad, enjoying immense popularity in Japan, Russia and post–World War II Europe. Millions of readers worldwide have alternately been frustrated and encouraged by the novel’s open ending—will Scarlett get Rhett back? Even if he did not give a damn, countless readers certainly did. Because of the ambiguous ending as well as Mitchell’s refusal to give an answer as to what happened next, this question has been a heated topic of discussion for decades and was the starting point for two authorized sequels commissioned by Mitchell’s heirs. However, these are not the only fictional works that have attempted to resolve the end of Gone with the Wind.The nineties saw the publication of a controversial parody and, more recently, a multitude of fan fiction stories has appeared on the internet. There is a large number of books devoted to Gone with the Wind from very different perspectives—the writing of the novel, the filming of the movie, Mitchell’s biography, Mitchell’s relationship with her second husband, the his- torical accuracy of the novel, the language of the novel from a discourse analysis approach, the psychology and characteristics of Gone with the Wind fans, the merchandising. Even though there are several articles on The Wind Done Gone, most of which have focused on the court case that threatened it, there is no serious academic work analyzing the continuations of Gone with the Wind. This book examines not only the two authorized sequels, Scarlett by Alexandra Ripley and Rhett Butler’s People by Donald McCaig, as well as the unauthorized parody The Wind Done Gone by Alice Randall, but also the numerous Gone with the 1

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More than seventy years after its publication in 1936, Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind has never been out of print. An icon of American culture, it has had similar success abroad, popular in Japan, Russia, and post-World War II Europe, among other places and times. This work analyzes the cont
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