visions of race, death, and the maternal
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Tapia, Ruby C.
- Publish Year
- 2011
- Shelfmark
- VS 35 2011 - B
- Thesaurus
- moederschap, ouderschap, etniciteit, vrouwbeelden, foto, sterven, tienermoeders, tienerzwangerschappen, weduwen, vrouwenlichamen
- Description
- In this book the author 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. She 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.