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Eia mater Fons Amoris

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2013

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Buikema, R.L.ISNI 0000000083577462

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https://doi.org/10.5117/TVGEND2013.3.BUIK

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Abstract

In this pictorial essay, Buikema investigates the image that won the World Press Photo award in 2012. This photograph of a veiled woman cradling the body of a fallen revolutionary in a mosque in Yemen evokes in western audiences the image of the pieta. Buikema argues that the image pictorially stages a confrontation between east and west, and owes its affective power to the similarities with and difference from christian depictions of the virgin mother.

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Specialized histories (international relations, law), Literary theory, analysis and criticism, Culturele activiteiten, Overig maatschappelijk onderzoek

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Buikema, R L 2013, 'Eia mater Fons Amoris', Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 61-65. https://doi.org/10.5117/TVGEND2013.3.BUIK

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https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/384194