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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456822003321

Autore

Tapia Ruby C

Titolo

American pietà€s [[electronic resource] ] : visions of race, death, and the maternal / / Ruby C. Tapia

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2011

ISBN

1-4529-4615-9

0-8166-7659-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 p.)

Collana

Critical American studies series

Disciplina

306.874/30973

Soggetti

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

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: 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.

Sommario/riassunto

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. magazines; the intert