Terror and Taboo

<p><strong><em>Terror and Taboo</em></strong> 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. <strong><em>Terror and Taboo</em></strong> 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.</p>