미국 내전과 로스트 커즈(the Lost Cause), 그리고 신(新)남부 백인여성의 역사적 기억의 정치 = The Civil War, The Lost Cause, and the Southern White Women’s Politics of Historical Memory

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Since the end of the Civil War, Southerners have attempted to cleanse their stigma as rebels and to restore their honor in mainstream history through the creation and commemoration of distorted memories on the war. The invention of collective memories of the Civil War began with the creation of the myth of the Lost Cause. The defeated Confederate have worked hard to turn the history of the Civil War into a struggle to defend states’ rights rather than slavery, and into a history of dedication and sacrifice of the Confederate dead.
It were the Southern white women who led the politics of historical memory using the Lost Cause while establishing Confederate traditions. In doing so, they centered, first, on the Ladies’ Memorial Association, then on the United Daughters of the Confederacy. In this process, Southern white women acquired new power and status. But, they avoided a radical feminism which broke down the gender norms that could be represented as “Southern Lady.” After all, what the Southern white women wanted to protect was the ruling order of the Old South. For this reason, the monuments and statues that were built in almost all public spaces across the South under their leadership were nothing more than a threat to lynching, the clan’s violence, and a symbol of the Jim Crow, all of which visualized the “politics of retaliation and hatred” against the African Americans.