The Wind Done Gone is the first novel written by Alice Randall. The novel is a parody of Gone with the Wind (1936), a famous American novel written by Margaret Mitchell, which was also adapated into one of the most popular American films of all time. DeFoes Robinson Crusoe, Newspaper edition published in 1719 A novel (from French nouvelle, new) is an extended fictional narrative in prose. ... Alice Randall (born in Detroit, Michigan) is an African American author and songwriter. ... Jump to: navigation, search In contemporary usage, parody is a form of satire that imitates another work of art in order to ridicule it. ... Gone With the Wind was an instant success. ... Jump to: navigation, search Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell (November 8, 1900 - August 16, 1949) was the American author who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1937 for her immensely successful novel, Gone with the Wind, that was published in 1936. ... Jump to: navigation, search Gone with the Wind is considered as one of the greatest films of all time. ...

Plot summary

The plot of Gone with the Wind revolves around a hard-working Southern woman named Scarlett O'Hara, who lives through the American Civil War and Reconstruction. The Wind Done Gone is the same story, but told from the viewpoint of Scarlett's half-sister Cynara, a mulatto slave on Scarlett's plantation (see History of slavery in the United States); the title is simply "Gone with the Wind" rendered into Ebonics, a slave's vernacular dialect. The U.S. Southern states or the South, also known colloquially as Dixie, constitute a distinctive region covering a large portion of the United States, with its own unique heritage, historical perspective, customs, musical styles, and cuisine. ... Jump to: navigation, search Image of a woman on the Pioneer plaque sent to outer space. ... Scarlett OHara (full name Katie Scarlett OHara Hamilton Kennedy Butler), is the main protagonist in the Margaret Mitchell novel Gone With the Wind and the later movie of the same name. ... Jump to: navigation, search The American Civil War (1861–1865) was fought in North America within the United States of America, between twenty-three mostly northern states of the Union and the Confederate States of America, a coalition of eleven southern states that declared their independence and claimed the right... Jump to: navigation, search In the history of the United States, reconstruction was the period after the American Civil War when the states of the breakaway Confederacy were reintegrated into the United States of America. ... Jump to: navigation, search Representation of Mulattos during the Latin American colonial period Mulatto (also Mulato) is a term of Spanish and/or Portuguese origin describing the offspring of African and European ancestry. ... The word slaves has several meanings and usages: People who are owned by others, and live to serve them without pay. ... // Forestry plantations A plantation of Douglas-fir in Washington, USA; note the trees of uniform size and planted in straight lines, and the lack of diversity in the ground flora In forestry, plantations of trees are typically grown as an even-aged monoculture for timber production, as opposed to a... Jump to: navigation, search The history of slavery in the United States begins with the adoption of the United States Constitution and ended with the final ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment. ... African American Vernacular English (AAVE), known colloquially as Ebonics, also called Black English, Black Vernacular or Black English Vernacular, is a dialect and ethnolect of American English. ... Jump to: navigation, search The vernacular is the native language of a country or locality. ... A dialect (from the Greek word διάλεκτος, dialektos) is a variety of a language used by people from a particular geographic area. ...

Legal controversy

The estate of Margaret Mitchell, controlled by her descendants, sued Randall and her publishing company, Houghton Mifflin, on the grounds that The Wind Done Gone was too similar to Gone with the Wind, thus infringing its copyright. The case attracted numerous comments from leading scholars, authors, and activists, regarding what Mitchell's attitudes would have been, and how much The Wind Done Gone copies from its predecessor. After the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit vacated an injunction against publishing the book in Suntrust v. Houghton Mifflin (2001), the case was settled in 2002 when Houghton Mifflin agreed to make an unspecified donation to Morehouse College, a historically African American college in Atlanta, Georgia in exchange for Mitchell's estate dropping the litigation. Estate is a term used in the common law. ... Jump to: navigation, search A lawsuit is a civil action brought before a court in order to recover a right, obtain damages for an injury, obtain an injunction to prevent an injury, or obtain a declaratory judgment to prevent future legal disputes. ... Houghton Mifflin Company is a leading educational publisher in the United States. ... Jump to: navigation, search For copyright issues in relation to Wikipedia itself, see Wikipedia:Copyrights. ... The United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit is a federal court with appellate jurisdiction over the following United States district courts: Northern, Middle, and Southern Districts of Alabama Northern, Middle, and Southern Districts of Florida Northern, Middle, and Southern Districts of Georgia These districts were originally part... Jump to: navigation, search An injunction is an equitable remedy in the form of a court order that either prohibits or compels (enjoins or restrains) a party from continuing a particular activity. ... Suntrust v. ... Jump to: navigation, search 2002(MMII) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Jump to: navigation, search Morehouse College is a private, four-year, liberal arts college for African-American men located on a 61 acre (247,000 m²) campus in Atlanta, Georgia. ... African Americans, also known as Afro-Americans or black Americans, are an ethnic group in the United States of America whose ancestors, usually in predominant part, were indigenous to Sub-Saharan and West Africa. ... The term college (Latin collegium) is most often used today to denote an educational institution. ... Jump to: navigation, search Atlanta is the capital and largest city of Georgia, a state of the United States of America. ...

External links

• A CNN article on the suit
• Freedom Forum article on the settlement
• Find a copy of The Wind Done Gone