Alice Randall’s The Wind Done Gone is an outright parody of Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind. This work consists of 114 journals which Cynara has written to find clarity from her traumatic and sorrowful life. In this article, I analyze various features of her journals and their roles in changing Cynara’s perspectives and soothing her traumas. Randall grapples with the harmful Mammy figure and docile slave stereotypes in Gone with the Wind and introduces wise and trickster-like blacks to depict new black characters and correct wrong and twisted representations of antebellum South and Reconstruction era. Continuous and tenacious journal writings enable Cynara to face her traumas courageously, analyze her surroundings as well as intricate, unfathomable and interconnected human relationship in detail, and finally forgive unforgivable people including her mother and Other. After finding clarity and inner peace, she chooses to be an unmarried mother who can stay close with Congressman and his wife, and her beloved son, Cyrus who becomes a catalyst of her true love and high self-esteem. At the end of this novel, she seems to be transformed into a free bird which has silenced strong traumas, and is ready to soar into the sky freely and waits for tomorrow’s wind.
한국중앙영어영문학회 [The Jungang English Language And Literature Association Of Korea]
설립연도
1968
분야
인문학>영어와문학
소개
본 학회는 영미어문학의 학술연구와 이에 부합하는 아래의 사업을 기획 수행하며,
또한 회원 상호간의 친목을 도모함을 목적으로 한다.
1. 학회지 발간
2. 연구 발표회, 강연회, 공동연구
3. 영미어문학 관련 도서출판
4. 영미어문학 관계 도서 및 자료의 모집 및 비치
5. 기타 본회의 목적 달성에 필요한 사업
간행물
간행물명
영어영문학연구 [The Jungang Journal of English Language and Literature]