apologia

noun

Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀπολογία (apología, “speech in defense of a position”). Doublet of apology.

1. A written defense of a position or belief.

   “Although I've enumerated some of the academic traditions and debates that have animated this book, it is not my purpose to offer a full apologia in these brief pages.”

   ““Gone With the Wind” was published in 1936, and despite heroic efforts over the last seven decades to transform it into something else, the novel stands as an apologia for the Old South — […]”