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
Autor principal: Tapia, Ruby C.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2011.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Race in art.
Pietà.
Mothers in art.
Motherhood in popular culture.
Ethnicity.
Death in popular culture.
Death in art.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Parenting > Motherhood.
Race dans l'art.
Mort dans l'art.
Meres dans l'art.
Ethnicite > États-Unis.
Mort dans la culture populaire > États-Unis.
Maternite dans la culture populaire > États-Unis.
Ethnicity > United States.
Death in popular culture > United States.
Motherhood in popular culture > United States.
United States.
Electronic books.
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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