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

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

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...

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Main Author: Tapia, Ruby C.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2011.
Series:Critical American studies series.
Subjects:
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.
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