Christopher columbus and the confederate generals versus native peoples? The struggle of memories amid removal, replacement and resignification of their monuments

This article proposes an analysis of the several episodes of damage and removal of various monuments dedicated to personalities-whose memory has always been or has recently become 'inconvenient'-in the light of the exegetical tools of social sciences such as Philosophy, Cultural Anthropology and Sociology. This methodological approach highlights all the limits of the current rereadings of the past and its protagonists based on concepts of political or gender correctness, whose proponents have hardly ever proposed a new reading of the past that would integrate the vision of the "winners" and that of the "losers".