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Tara, the O'Haras, and the Irish Gone With the Wind

Tara, the O'Haras, and the Irish Gone With the Wind essay .................... by Geraldine Higgins Margaret Mitchell's attitudes towards slavery and the book and film's nostalgia for the Lost Cause have occasioned a repudiation of Gone With the Wind on both political and aesthetic grounds. Margaret Mitchell, 1941, photographed by Al Aumuller, courtesy of the New York World-Telegram and Sun Photograph Collection at the Library of Congress. erhaps one of the most frustrating things for fans of Gone With the Wind is arriving in Atlanta, Georgia, only to discover that they have come to the wrong place. If they want to see the white columns and the wraparound porch of Tara, they need to go to Burbank, California, and take a tour of the mGm movie lot. Because Tara does not exist. Perhaps this is fortuitous, given the many anxieties about Mitchell's representation of plantation life in antebellum Georgia. Mitchell's attitudes towards slavery, and the book and film's nostalgia for the Lost Cause, have occasioned a repudiation of Gone With the Wind on both political and aesthetic grounds. Tourists in Atlanta are directed instead to the Margaret Mitchell House at 990 Peachtree Street to view the apartment where Peggy Mitchell lived with her husband John Marsh until 1925. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southern Cultures University of North Carolina Press

Tara, the O'Haras, and the Irish Gone With the Wind

Higgins, Geraldine.
Southern Cultures , Volume 17 (1) – Feb 12, 2011
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essay .................... by Geraldine Higgins Margaret Mitchell's attitudes towards slavery and the book and film's nostalgia for the Lost Cause have occasioned a repudiation of Gone With the Wind on both political and aesthetic grounds. Margaret Mitchell, 1941, photographed by Al Aumuller, courtesy of the New York World-Telegram and Sun Photograph Collection at the Library of Congress. erhaps one of the most frustrating things for fans of Gone With the Wind is arriving in Atlanta, Georgia, only to discover that they have come to the wrong place. If they want to see the white columns and the wraparound porch of Tara, they need to go to Burbank, California, and take a tour of the mGm movie lot. Because Tara does not exist. Perhaps this is fortuitous, given the many anxieties about Mitchell's representation of plantation life in antebellum Georgia. Mitchell's attitudes towards slavery, and the book and film's nostalgia for the Lost Cause, have occasioned a repudiation of Gone With the Wind on both political and aesthetic grounds. Tourists in Atlanta are directed instead to the Margaret Mitchell House at 990 Peachtree Street to view the apartment where Peggy Mitchell lived with her husband John Marsh until 1925.

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Southern Cultures – University of North Carolina Press

Published: Feb 12, 2011

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