[PDF] The Migrant's Time: Rethinking Art History and Diaspora (Clark Studies in the Visual Arts) by Saloni Mathur in Arts-Photography

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In American Pietagrave;s; Ruby C. Tapia reveals how visual representations of racialized motherhood shape and reflect national citizenship. By means of a sustained engagement with Roland Barthesrsquo;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.