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American Pietas - Visions of Race, Death, and the Maternal (Paperback)
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American Pietas - Visions of Race, Death, and the Maternal (Paperback)
Series: Critical American Studies
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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 intertext of Toni Morrison's and Hollywood's
"Beloved"; the social and cultural death in teen pregnancy, imaged
and regulated in California's Partnership for Responsible Parenting
campaigns; and popular constructions of the "Widows of 9/11" in
print and televisual journalism.
Taken together, these various visual media texts function in
"American Pietas" as cultural artifacts and as visual nodes in a
larger network of racialized productions of maternal bodies in
contexts of national death and remembering. To engage this network
is to ask how and toward what end the racial project of the nation
imbues some maternal bodies with resurrecting power and leaves
others for dead. In the spaces between these different maternities,
says Tapia, U.S. citizen-subjects are born--and reborn.
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