Black Flag under a Grey Sky. Forms of Protest in Current Neo-Confederate Prose and Song

• Authors: John Eric Starnes
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Abstract: While ‘tragic’ protest and protest songs are normally conceived of as originating on the political left of American culture, in recent years protest from the political right, specifically the racist right has flown under the cultural radar of most researchers of American studies. This article strives to explore the ways in which the neo-Confederate movement is currently protesting the state of cultural, political, and social affairs in the contemporary American South. The neo-Confederate movement is one of the oldest forms of ‘conservative’ protest present in the United States, originating out of the defeat of the Confederacy and the civic religion of the ‘Lost Cause’ of the last decades of the 1800s into the first three decades of the 1900s. Since the neo-Confederate movement is both revolutionary and conservative, it is possible to derive some valuable insights into the contemporary reactionary politics of the right by examining a brief sampling of the protest songs, novels and essays of this particular subculture.

Keywords

EN

neo-Confederate; radical fiction; racist revolutionary subculture; U.S. cultural history

• Publisher: University of Silesia Press
• Journal: Review of International American Studies
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 13
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 159-181

Dates

published

2020-08-16

Contributors

author

John Eric Starnes

Identifiers

DOI

10.31261/rias.7587