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A 15 page paper which examines the black identity and representation of the 1939 film with the nationalism sentiments expressed in the 1991 text. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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adaptation of Margaret Mitchells 1936 novel of the same name. It is the story of the trials and tribulations of a Georgia plantation family both before and after the
Civil War. It is an unabashedly sentimental tale of an aristocratic world of gentlemen and ladies that has been lost forever. Every frame is seen through the eyes
of a white southerner, which is why northerners are disparagingly referred to as "Yankees" and black slaves are described in what was regarded as the more politically correct "darkies" rather
than the blatantly derogatory term, "niggers." Still, there is an implied sense of inferiority that reinforces the notion that contrary to the promises of the U.S. Constitution, not all
races and classes have been created equal. If Gone With the Wind had been written from the black perspective, the picture would have been more dark than wistful.
The representation of blacks and the identity they were forced to assume as slaves and second-class citizens in Gone With the Wind reflect their roles in life as conceived by
the white mans society. In order to gain a greater insight into how the film characterizes blacks, it is important to first contemplate how individual and cultural identities are constructed
in the first place. In the opinion of Benedict Anderson, author of the book Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, they are defined within the
parameters established through three distinct concepts of nation, nationality, and nationalism, which he freely admits have proven "notoriously difficult to define" (3). According to Anderson, a nation "is an
imagined political community... It is imagined because the members of even the smallest nation will never know most of their fellow-members, meet them, or even hear of them, yet in
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