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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tapia, Ruby C.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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 the contradictory essence of the photograph is both as a signifier of death and a guarantor of resurrection. Tapia explores the implications of this argument for racialized productions of death and the maternal in the context of specific cultural moments: the commemoration of Princess Diana in U.S. magaz.
Physical Description:1 online resource (240 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780816676590

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