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UNINA9910456822003321 |
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Autore |
Tapia Ruby C |
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Titolo |
American pietà€s [[electronic resource] ] : visions of race, death, and the maternal / / Ruby C. Tapia |
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Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2011 |
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ISBN |
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1-4529-4615-9 |
0-8166-7659-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (240 p.) |
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Collana |
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Critical American studies series |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 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 |
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