From Parody to Rewriting: Margaret Mitchell’s GoneWith the Wind (1936) vs Alice Randall’s The Wind Done Gone (2001) by Isabelle Roblin

“…When after many difficulties, Alice Randall published The Wind Done Gone, the question of the very nature of the novel came to the foreground, from a constitutional as well as a literary standpoint: was it a parodic re-writing of Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind, and as such protected by the First Amendment; or was it just a “steal” of famous characters and situations, and as such submitted to the strict laws of copyright? …”
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Seeing Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind with Fresh Eyes by Emmeline Gros

“…By examining the ways in which Margaret Mitchell’s novel Gone With the Wind (and the character of Scarlett O’Hara specifically) contests heteronormative, patriarchal, masculine constructions of Southern (ideal) femininity, this essay argues that Scarlett’s “ugliness” forces us to widen our perspective on Southern feminine beauty and purity and contributes to challenging the tropes of white Southern masculinity and femininity. …”
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Axiological parameter of the image of a literary character by Ludmila V. Paloyko

“…In this article axiological parameter of the image of a literary character is considered by the example of Scarlett O'Hara, the heroine of the novel "Gone with the Wind" by M. Mitchell and its official sequel - "Scarlett" by A. …”
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