Margaret Mitchell’s classic 1936 novel Gone With The Wind will now come with a trigger warning.
will now come with a trigger warning and an essay after it was deemed “harmful” by its publishers. The additions will acknowledge the Civil War classic, whose adaptation swept the 1940 Oscars, is “problematic,” claiming that the book adds to the “romanticization of a shocking era in our history and the horrors of slavery.
” New editions contain a note at the beginning of the book, according to UK’s, which warns readers the text contains “racist” elements that could be “hurtful or indeed harmful.” It also contains an essay, written byauthor Philippa Gregory, explaining how the book contains elements of white supremacism.
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