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Vassar Scholarship

Vassar Scholarship, the institutional repository formerly known as Digital Window, reflects the research and scholarly output of the Vassar College community.  It provides access to a variety of collections, including senior theses and projects across a wide range of disciplines.

Power (in) play the articulation of the othered body and decolonization of historical memory through playwriting and performance

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2016-January-01
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Even within an increasingly digital age, the body on stage continues to operate as an impactful and historically charged mode of communication, on both an individual and societal level. Theatre, I argue, is inherently a <em>medium of memory, </em>and as...

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Queer Hermeneutics for an Unbound Temporality: Schools as Passageway

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2015-January-01
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Queer theorists have posited that normativity is involved in a spatial practice. American society has taken great care to assign different levels of value to different identities as well as to the time and space they inhabit. Inequitable structures of...

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