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