Abstract:

This article examines the role that Atlanta's Grant Park (1883) played in promoting the idea of social continuity between the Old and New Souths in the final decades of the nineteenth century. By the 1880s, Atlanta's leaders successfully leveraged their city's quick recovery from the Civil War to present it as an exemplar of New South success that would lead the region into an era of prosperity. As they did, they simultaneously sought to reassure white citizens that the march into the future did not require them to abandon their cultural attachment to the romanticized Old South. Consequently, they simulated the purported environmental and social conditions of the antebellum period within the grounds of Grant Park in order to reassure white Atlantans that central tenets of antebellum society would be maintained amid the push for modernization. The result was a space that privileged a conception of southern identity premised on white supremacy and patriarchal control above all others and codified social difference within the landscape.

摘要：

本文考察了亚特兰大的格兰特公园（1883 年）在 19 世纪最后几十年在促进旧南方和新南方之间的社会连续性观念方面所发挥的作用。到 1880 年代，亚特兰大的领导人成功地利用他们的城市从内战中迅速恢复过来，将其作为新南方成功的典范，引领该地区进入繁荣时代。在他们这样做的同时，他们同时试图向白人公民保证，向未来进军并不需要他们放弃对浪漫化的旧南方的文化依恋。最后，他们在格兰特公园内模拟了所谓的战前时期的环境和社会条件，以向亚特兰大白人保证，在推动现代化的过程中，战前社会的核心原则将得到维护。结果是一个以白人至上和父权控制为前提的南方身份概念享有特权的空间，并在景观中编纂了社会差异。