Terror and Taboo
The Follies, Fables, and Faces of Terrorism
Published on 22. April 2016
304 pages
978-1-134-95412-4 (ISBN)
Description
Terror and Taboo is 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 Taboo is 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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Reflowable
File size
4,32 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-134-95412-4 (9781134954124)
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Schweitzer Classification
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Book
approx. 09/1996
Routledge
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Book
07/1996
1st Edition
Routledge
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Persons
Joseba Zulaika is an Associate Professor in the Basque Studies Program at the University of Nevada. He is the author of Basque Violence. William Douglass is a Professor of Anthropology and Coordinator of Basque Studies at the University of Nevada.
Content
Preface Part One FASHIONING TERRORISM DISCOURSE 1 Waiting for Terror 2 Writing Terrorism 3 Tropics of Terror Plots and Performances 4 Categories and Allegories Part Two THE CULTURES OF TERROR 5 Fateful Purpose, Fearful Innocence 6 Terror, Taboo, and the Wild Man 7 Faces of Terror and Laughter, Epilogue as Prologue The Apotheosis of Terrorism Foretold
