American Pietàs: Visions of Race, Death, and the Maternal

by Ruby C. Tapia

Book Overview

In American Piet s, 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816653119
• ISBN13: 9780816653119
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"