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1(22): 04/05/16 11:36 ID:DtmiNY6n(1/4) AAS
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909: 04/06/12 23:54 ID:PWqKwJCp(51/54) AAS
court overruled the lower court and cleared the book for publication.
Bubbling with verbal energy,
Randall's animated voice, face, and hands work together in a kind of expression engine
-- she seems to talk with her whole body.
It pours out of her in a flood of words: American justice,
the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin,
"Gone With the Wind,"
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Merle Haggard,
Zora Neale Hurston, the "post-Brown" world of African-Americans,
and about what it's like to be a Harvard-educated black female country-western songwriter,
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910: 04/06/12 23:55 ID:PWqKwJCp(52/54) AAS
"The Wind Done Gone" retold the story of "Gone With the Wind" from the point of view of its black characters,
inverting almost everything
911: 04/06/12 23:57 ID:PWqKwJCp(53/54) AAS
in the story.
The black characters are fleshed out, while the white characters are cartoonish.
The blacks have much of the real power, though the whites don't know it.
The black narrator, Cynara, is the half-sister of Scarlett O'Hara.
"Pushkin and the Queen of Spades" is very different, though also written in a black woman's voice.
At heart, it's clear that Randall and her protagonist, Windsor Armstrong, have much in common.
Both were born in Detroit of fathers in the dry-cleaning business.
Both moved to Washington, D.C., with their mothers when their parents divorced.
Both went to elite private Washington schools (Randall to George-
912: 04/06/12 23:59 ID:PWqKwJCp(54/54) AAS
-- town Day School from fourth grade through high school), then on to Harvard.
But there the parallels end. Windsor is raped just before entering Harvard,
resists her mother's pressure to have an abortion,
and gives birth to a son she names Pushkin X.,
after the Russian poet, whose great-grandfather was an African slave.
The identity of her son's father -- a key plot element
-- is revealed late in the novel. Windsor becomes a professor of Russian at Vanderbilt University in Nashville,
and her grown-up son first disappoints her by becoming a professional football star,
then shocks her by proposing to marry Tanya, a Russian-born stripper.
913: 04/06/13 00:00 ID:bZQsw3lk(1/16) AAS
Randall has no son but has a 16-year-old daughter, Caroline, who is a student at St. Paul's School in New Hampshire.
The writer graduated from Harvard in 1981 with honors and a degree in English and American literature.
(Her senior thesis: "Mothers and Daughters in the Novels of Jane Austen.")
"I loved Harvard," she said
-- especially its libraries, and she immersed herself in courses with such luminaries as Nathan Huggins and Harry Levin. A fanatical reader,
she says she reads five to seven books per week,
a claim confirmed by Anton Mueller, her Houghton Mifflin editor.
914: 04/06/13 00:01 ID:bZQsw3lk(2/16) AAS
But rather than have an elite post-Harvard career,
she moved to Nashville to pursue a dream of writing country-western songs.
"She was the first woman black country-western songwriter,"
said her Harvard classmate David Feinberg of Chestnut Hill.
"Everyone at Harvard was going off to be doctors and lawyers, and here she was writing country songs.
That's Alice. She's a totally brilliant, spirited, zany, wonderful person. You would expect her to choose the less-traveled road."
915: 04/06/13 00:02 ID:bZQsw3lk(3/16) AAS
She has published at least 200 songs, she says,
and about 30 have been recorded, including "Blinded by Stars,"
sung by Adrienne Young on her recent CD "Plow to the End of the Row."
Married to attorney David Steele Ewing, a second marriage for her,
she is a volunteer teacher in Nashville-area schools.
916: 04/06/13 00:04 ID:bZQsw3lk(4/16) AAS
In 1999, Randall was asked to give a talk at Belle Meade Plantation in Nashville,
a working museum of antebellum life,
about an exhibition of costumes used in the film "Gone With the Wind."
The talk was to address the historical accuracy of the costumes.
She gave the talk but found the request unsettling.
"People wanted to know if the portrayal of costumes was accurate," she said,
"but the deeper question was, `
Is the portrayal of people and relationships accurate?' Or, `Why are there no mulatto children in the book?' "
917: 04/06/13 00:05 ID:bZQsw3lk(5/16) AAS
Right away, she said,
she began to write "The Wind Done Gone,"
partly so that her daughter would have something to read against "Gone With the Wind."
She knew that the latter book, which still represents the image of the antebellum South in white America, as well as around the world,
had caused pain to African-American readers because of its grossly racist depiction of black characters.
"Thousands of readers do not know that reading `Gone With the Wind' is traumatic for many black readers,"
she said.
918: 04/06/13 00:06 ID:bZQsw3lk(6/16) AAS
-- "I had no commercial intent. I didn't sell the book for a lot of money -- I never even had an agent."
What she did have was a longtime friendship with Mueller,
senior editor of Houghton Mifflin, who was delighted when she sent him the manuscript.
919: 04/06/13 00:07 ID:bZQsw3lk(7/16) AAS
"I consider her to be the smartest person I have ever met," Mueller said.
"Because `Gone With the Wind' was a piece of popular fiction,
it was beneath the attention of those in the literary establishment
-- Toni Morrison was not going to take it on [though Morrison filed a statement with the court supporting Randall].
But Alice could see that it had had a profound effect on the African-American community and it deserved to be critiqued.
That she was able to write it and have it be as good as it was, the first time she ever tried to write a book, was amazing."
920: 04/06/13 00:08 ID:bZQsw3lk(8/16) AAS
She filled the story with signals it was a parody,
and was furious at the Mitchell estate's allegation that it was intended as a sequel.
In the first paragraph, Cynara writes,
"I think maybe my emeralds are just green glass; I hope maybe they be genuine peridot"
-- i.e., the work is a genuine parody.
It was also filled with African-American folk references that would have been unthinkable in a sequel.
921: 04/06/13 00:09 ID:bZQsw3lk(9/16) AAS
"It was critical to our success to have Alice decode the numerous metaphors and allusions to slave and African-American culture,"
said Joseph Beck, a First Amendment lawyer in Atlanta who argued the case for Randall and Houghton Mifflin.
"Her sophisticated parody was not the sort of thing we've grown accustomed to in programs such as `Saturday Night Live.'
Her explanation helped us see why `The Wind Done Gone' was truly, as in the Greek, `para ode' -- another story -- about the South and plantation life."
922: 04/06/13 00:10 ID:bZQsw3lk(10/16) AAS
The book is now taught in literary parody classes at 17 universities.
To Randall's great satisfaction,
it is also sold in the shop at Belle Meade Plantation.
923: 04/06/13 00:11 ID:bZQsw3lk(11/16) AAS
Randall was eager to defend her book but doesn't deny she was scared to death by the suit.
"They were suing me for $10 million.
That was my house, my daughter's education.
My husband is seven years younger than me and black, and he expected to get justice.
But I grew up in a world where black people still could not get justice."
924: 04/06/13 00:12 ID:bZQsw3lk(12/16) AAS
Randall was thrilled by the support she received from all sorts of people who agreed
that "Gone With the Wind" had been hurtful and needed to be confronted.
Besides the famous writers, from Pat Conroy to Henry Louis Gates Jr., many ordinary African-American readers thanked her then and later. She said,
"The two things that touched me were a note from [songwriter and arranger] Quincy Jones,
sending me flowers and asking, `Whose legs do I need to break?'
-- which made me cry because it would have been my father's response had he been alive --
and Harper Lee [author of the classic "To Kill a Mockingbird"] signing a petition on my behalf
." Lee later wrote a long supportive letter to Randall.
925: 04/06/13 00:14 ID:bZQsw3lk(13/16) AAS
The center of Randall's new novel is a sophisticated black woman's pain at her son's choice of a white woman for a wife,
and her agonized reflection on her own freedom and that of her son's.
It's about letting go of expectations and realizing that her son's generation doesn't share her history or her pains.
At the same time, it's a meditation on the African strain in Alexander Pushkin,
which disappears in succeeding generations, and about the theme of family love and loyalty.
926: 04/06/13 00:15 ID:bZQsw3lk(14/16) AAS
"This book is not autobiographical," she said,
"but is thematically resonant with my own biography.
I lived in the places Windsor lived.
I lived [in Detroit] in so much an all-black community
that I went to an all-black school. When I heard someone say,
`White folks always keep you down
,' I thought `whitefolks' was a person. I said, `Who is whitefolks?' "
927: 04/06/13 00:16 ID:bZQsw3lk(15/16) AAS
She recalls a childhood conversation that is echoed in the book.
"My father told me a story about a pimp he knew who had a vicious guard dog named `Whitefolks.'
He said, `Whitefolks' ain't nothing but a broken-down black pimp's dog.'
That is protective racism. There is something grandiose and untrue in it,
also true and transformative. Windsor moves away from that kind of racism.
I have completely moved away from that kind of racism."
928: 04/06/13 00:16 ID:bZQsw3lk(16/16) AAS
Still, Windsor agonizes.
The first sentence of the book
-- "Look what they done to my boy!" --
paraphrases the grieved comment of Mamie Till Bradley in 1955,
at the funeral of her lynched teenager Emmett Till:
"Let them see what they have done to my boy."
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