Mammy has her moment in 'Gone with the Wind' prequel

2014/11/01 12:01:18 @Entertainment News Headlines — Yahoo! News

Nearly eight decades after she became one of the most famous supporting figures in American popular literature, Mammy has become the heroine of her own story in a prequel to & quot;Gone with the Wind. & quot; & quot;Ruth & #039;s Journey & quot; by novelist and poet Donald McCaig comes 75 years after the film version of Margaret Mitchell & #039;s Pulitzer-winning epic work of fiction set in the Deep South during the US Civil War. In both the original book and the movie, he said, Mammy & #039;s real name was not even clear, as was usual for an African-American slave character tasked with raising her children of the family that owned her. In imagining Mammy & #039;s back story, McCaig -- whose book has been authorized by Mitchell & #039;s estate -- baptized her Ruth, in reference to the biblical character that symbolizes faith and fidelity.
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