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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tapia, Ruby C.

Series:

Critical American studies series.

Critical American studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motherhood in popular culture--United States.

Motherhood in popular culture.

Death in popular culture--United States.

Death in popular culture.

Ethnicity--United States.

Ethnicity.

Pietà.

Mothers in art.

Death in art.

Race in art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

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. magazines; the intert

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4529-4615-9

0-8166-7659-3

OCLC:

741492677