American pietàs : visions of race, death, and the maternal /

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In "American Pietas," Ruby C. Tapia reveals how visual representations of racialized motherhood shape and reflect national citizenship. By means of a sustained engagement with Roland Barthes's suturing of race, death, and the maternal in "Camera Lucida," Tapia contends that...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tapia, Ruby C.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2011.
Colección:Critical American studies series.
Temas:
Motherhood in popular culture > United States.
Death in popular culture > United States.
Ethnicity > United States.
Pietà.
Mothers in art.
Death in art.
Race in art.
Maternité dans la culture populaire > États-Unis.
Mort dans la culture populaire > États-Unis.
Ethnicité > États-Unis.
Mères dans l'art.
Mort dans l'art.
Race dans l'art.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Parenting > Motherhood.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
Death in art
Death in popular culture
Ethnicity
Motherhood in popular culture
Mothers in art
Pietà
Race in art
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Contents; Introduction: Race, Death, and the Maternal in American Visual Culture; 1. Maternal Visions, Racial Seeing: Theories of the Photographic in Barthes's Camera Lucida; 2. Commemorating Whiteness: The Ghost of Diana in the U.S. Popular Press; 3. Beloved Therapies: Oprah and the Hollywood Production of Maternal Horror; 4. Prodigal (Non)Citizens: Teen Pregnancy and Public Health at the Border; 5. Breeding Patriotism: The Widows of 9/11 and the Prime- time Wombs of National Memory; Conclusion: Vivid Defacements; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index.

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