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... This chapter provides an extended rumination on Roland Barthes’s Winter Garden Photograph, the famously absent image at the center of Camera Lucida . Entering debates about the existence of the image, it proposes, through a reading of Barthes’s posthumously published Mourning Diary...

... as photographic incandescence. The chapter takes up how, through a return to Anzaldúa's carnal aesthetics and specifically her discussion of the dismembered moon goddess, Coyolxauhqui, the possibility of re-membering arises. The chapter concludes with a letter to Roland Barthes, commenting on his reactions...

... of ambivalence. Black feminist thinking on motherwork and fabulation guides this chapter’s exploration of how Akerman’s camerawork creates cinematic spaces where new practices of mothering and motherwork can be experienced and imagined. Akerman’s cinematic search for mothers is contrasted with Roland Barthes’s...

...—as modeled by Roland Barthes’s method in A Lover’s Discourse (1977)—offers an alternative to critique. The essay closes with a phenomenological reading of Jim Thompson’s The Killer Inside Me (1952), a pulp fiction work that uses cliché in ways we cannot simply dismiss as ideologically complicit...

... The conclusion, “Historiography and Race,” is a close reading of the reception of Rembrandt’s painting Syndics of the Drapers’ Guild, considering various readings of the painting by Roland Barthes, Alois Riegl, and Derek Walcott. Ultimately, this chapter demonstrates that race has been integral...

... is introduced as photographic incandescence. The chapter takes up how, through a return to Anzaldúa's carnal aesthetics and specifically her discussion of the dismembered moon goddess, Coyolxauhqui, the possibility of re-membering arises. The chapter concludes with a letter to Roland Barthes, commenting on his...