Title:
American pietàs : visions of race, death, and the maternal
Author:
Tapia, Ruby C.
ISBN:
9780816676590
Publication Information:
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2011.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (202 pages) : illustrations.
Series:
Critical American studies series
Critical American studies series.
Abstract:
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. magaz.
Electronic Access:
http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctttsc7mCopies: