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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Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author:	Tapia, Ruby C.
Format:	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. Death in popular culture. Ethnicity. Motherhood in popular culture. Pietà. United States.