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

• Autore: Tapia Ruby C
• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (240 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.874/30973
• Soggetto topico: 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
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: American pietàs
• ISBN: 1-4529-4615-9; 0-8166-7659-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910781489803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Critical American studies series.