Vassar Scholarship
Covering Islam: National Trauma and The Politics of the Imagination
Publication Date
2015-January-01
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Abstract
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...
