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Ep 291 - Gone With The Wind, by Margaret Mitchell

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Ep 291 - Gone With The Wind, by Margaret Mitchell

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2018/03/26
Overdue

Overdue

2018/03/26
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Gone With The Wind is an American classic, both in that it is a classic book written by an American author and in that it does a bad job wrangling with America's original sin, slavery. We try to do justice both to Mitchell's characterization and sense of p...

Highlights

Andrew and Craig examine Gone with the Wind as both a compelling novel and a deeply distorted account of the American South.
04:24
A book that wants you to read it
12:46
“Gumption” is Mitchell’s word for survival
25:56
A difficult question about representation
36:12
Plantation fiction as propaganda
52:47
I'll never go hungry again
1:00:56
The Klan is presented through a romanticized lens
1:09:11
Rhett’s love has worn out
1:14:58
War takes away what cannot be recovered
1:21:40
The idealized South was never most people’s reality
1:27:08
Scarlett is 28 after three marriages

Chapters

Mitchell’s inherited South
00:01
Scarlett’s world before the war
28:54
War, survival, and the pursuit of security
46:54
Loss, moral compromise, and failed love
1:03:00
The novel’s emotional power and historical distortion
1:11:36
Reading a flawed novel critically
1:22:24

Transcript

Andrew: This is a HeadGum Podcast. Craig: This episode is brought to you by Mint Mobile. Andrew, summer is over now, but you can still carry the spirit of summer, the spirit of those carefree months with no homework or school. And the freedom to get away ...