A Tough Little Patch of History: Gone with the Wind and the Politics of Memory

A Tough Little Patch of History: Gone with the Wind and the Politics of Memory

by Jennifer W. Dickey
A Tough Little Patch of History: Gone with the Wind and the Politics of Memory

A Tough Little Patch of History: Gone with the Wind and the Politics of Memory

by Jennifer W. Dickey

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Overview

More than seventy-five years after its publication, Gone with the Wind remains thoroughly embedded in American culture. Margaret Mitchell’s novel and the film produced by David O. Selznick have melded with the broader forces of southern history, southern mythology, and marketing to become, and remain, a cultural phenomenon.

A Tough Little Patch of History (the phrase was coined by a journalist in 1996 to describe the Margaret Mitchell home after it was spared from destruction by fire) explores how Gone with the Wind has remained an important component of public memory in Atlanta through an analysis of museums and historic sites that focus on this famous work of fiction. Jennifer W. Dickey explores how the book and film threw a spotlight on Atlanta, which found itself simultaneously presented as an emblem of both the Old South and the New South. Exhibitions produced by the Atlanta History Center related to Gone with the Wind are explored, along with nearby Clayton County’s claim to fame as “the Home of Gone with the Wind,” a moniker bestowed on the county by Margaret Mitchell’s estate in 1969. There’s a recounting of the saga of “the Dump,” the tiny apartment in midtown Atlanta where Margaret Mitchell wrote the book, and how this place became a symbol for all that was right and all that was wrong with Mitchell’s writing.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781557286574
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Publication date: 04/01/2014
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 210
Product dimensions: 6.20(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Jennifer W. Dickey is assistant professor and coordinator, public history program, Kennesaw State University. She is the author of A History of the Berry Schools on the Mountain Campus and co-editor of Museums in a Global Context: National Identity, International Understanding.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments viii

Introduction 3

Chapter 1 The Little Woman, the Big Book, and the City Too Busy to Hate 21

Chapter 2 Arousing an Interest in History 39

Chapter 3 The Rocky Road to Tara 73

Chapter 4 It Might Not Be Tara 107

Chapter 5 The House of Broken Dreams 125

Chapter 6 The House Shall Rise Again 149

Chapter 7 The Power of the Storyteller 171

Notes 185

Selected Bibliography 201

Index 209

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