Vassar College Digital Library

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.

Covering Islam: National Trauma and The Politics of the Imagination

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2015-January-01
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My thesis scrutinizes the U.S. media construction of the events of September 11, 2001 as "national trauma," and the way in which this framing of the attacks has allowed '9/11' to invoke a visceral imagination of the deterministic relationship between...

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The crypt

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2016-January-01
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A crypt is a haunted underground burial chamber where in the secret, something very important is kept (mostly dead bodies and "their" treasures). Certainly no <em>one </em>comes out of the crypt once they have entered. But precisely what secret is...

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