침묵의 서사에 말걸기: 랜들의 『바람은 이미 사라졌다』의 남부신화 다시 쓰기

Abstract

This article examines Alice Randall’s The Wind Done Gone as a counter-myth that disrupts the plantation romance and Lost Cause memory canonized by Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind and its film adaptation. Positioned against dominant Southern master narratives, the essay contends that Randall’s deployment of the diary form, strategic (re)naming, and exclusive focalization through Cynara’s voice recenters an enslaved, mixed-race woman as a historical subject while simultaneously decentering and satirizing the iconic white figures of the Old South. Situating Randall’s work within a broader genealogy of Southern rewritings and plantation literature, the article discloses how Gone with the Wind has functioned as a de facto national archive that naturalizes a reconciliationist memory and thereby erases slavery, Black suffering, and Black agency. Close readings demonstrate how Randall mobilizes parody’s ‘critical difference’ to unsettle this mnemonic regime, restore voice to historically silenced subjects, and reopen contested sites of historical imagination. Ultimately, Randall’s novel exemplifies a mode of counter-mythmaking that reorients cultural memory by redefining who is remembered and how they are remembered.