{"product_id":"american-piets-ruby-c-tapia-9780816653119","title":"American Piet灣: Visions of Race, Death, and the Maternal","description":"In \u003ci\u003eAmerican Piet灣\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eCamera Lucida\u003c\/i\u003e, Tapia contends that the contradictory essence of the photograph is both as a signifier of death and a guarantor of resurrection.\u003cbr\u003eTapia 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 \u003ci\u003eBeloved\u003c\/i\u003e; 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.\u003cbr\u003eTaken together, these various visual media texts function in \u003ci\u003eAmerican Piet灣\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ruby C. Tapia\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0816653119\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780816653119\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/20\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2011 pg. 93","brand":"Ruby C. Tapia","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44120334008575,"sku":"9780816653119","price":25.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d90e5e12-3fd2-4f9e-8614-d96b9b644e61.jpg?v=1687413775","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/american-piets-ruby-c-tapia-9780816653119","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}