ABSTRACT As Lost Cause statues come down across the country, communities are forced to reckon with monumental absences. While the rhetorical significance of monuments is well-established in scholarly literature, the rhetoric of monumental absence is not as thoroughly covered. To better understand the role that monumental absence plays in both public space and civic life, this essay theorizes residual memory as the remaining rhetorical potency that clings to a commemorative site after the focal object or structure of memorialization is removed. To demonstrate the theoretical utility of residual memory and contribute to ongoing public debates about Lost Cause monuments, this essay uses rhetorical field methods to conduct a rhetorical analysis of Take 'Em Down NOLA's “Second Line to Bury White Supremacy.” The secretive night time removal of the Liberty Place Monument in New Orleans on April 24, 2017 and the activist celebration that followed two weeks later provide an exemplary case for exploring how residual memories can be used to resist and revise regressive practices of public memory.

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“埋葬白人至上的第二条线”：Take 'Em Down Nola、纪念碑拆除和残留记忆

摘要 随着失落的原因雕像在全国范围内倒塌，社区被迫考虑巨大的缺席。虽然纪念碑的修辞意义在学术文献中已经确立，但纪念碑缺席的修辞并没有被彻底涵盖。为了更好地理解纪念性缺席在公共空间和公民生活中所扮演的角色，本文将残余记忆理论化为在移除焦点对象或纪念结构后，依附在纪念场所的剩余修辞效力。为了证明残余记忆的理论效用并促进关于失落原因纪念碑的持续公开辩论，本文使用修辞场方法对 Take'Em Down NOLA 的“第二条线埋葬白人至上”进行修辞分析。