Analysis of African-American Representation in Gone with the Wind
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Many analyses of blackness on screen, and in particular of black spectatorship, take from W.E.B. Du Bois’s concept of “double-consciousness” (>). The most notable works being Jane Gaines’s “Fire and Desire” and Thomas Cripps’s Slow Fade to Black. The concept suggests that black identity is formed from a ‘truce’ between the dominant culture’s definitions of blackness and the individual’s knowledge...
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