Seeing Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind with Fresh Eyes
By examining the ways in which Margaret Mitchell’s novel Gone With the Wind (and the character of Scarlett O’Hara specifically) contests heteronormative, patriarchal, masculine constructions of Southern (ideal) femininity, this essay argues that Scarlett’s “ugliness” forces us to widen our perspecti...
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| Language: | English |
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Association Française d'Etudes Américaines
2020-07-01
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| Series: | Transatlantica |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/14172 |