Terror and Taboo: The Follies, Fables, and Faces of Terrorism

by Zulaika,Joseba

• ISBN13: 9780415917599
• ISBN10: 041591759X
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1996-07-16
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Terror and Taboois about the mythology of terrorism; it is an exploration of the ways we talk about terrorism. It offers incontestable evidence to support the idea that we give power to terrorism by the way we write and talk about it. According to Zulaika and Douglass, we make terrorism worse by the way we represent it in the media and in everyday conversation. Through their examination of terrorism, they propose to remove the taboos surrounding terrorism. Terror and Taboois full of examples to ground the authors premise, ranging from specific examples, such as tendency to talk more about where Timothy McVeigh shopped for weapons than about the international traffic in arms by legitimate nations, to more theoretical interpretations that will be familiar to readers of cultural studies books.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Preface
Waiting for Terror	p. 3
Writing Terrorism	p. 31
Tropics of Terror: Plots and Performances	p. 65
Categories and Allegories	p. 91
Fateful Purpose, Fearful Innocence	p. 123
Terror, Taboo, and the Wild Man	p. 149
Faces of Terror and Laughter	p. 191
Epilogue as Prologue: The Apotheosis of Terrorism Foretold	p. 227
Notes	p. 241
Bibliography	p. 263
Index	p. 277
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