Terrorism
Subtitle: the self-fulfilling prophecy
By: Joseba Zulaika.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9780226994154; 9780226994161
Subjects: Terrorism -- Prevention; Terrorism -- Government policy; War on Terrorism, 2001-; Discourse analysis
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Rethinking the War on Terror; title: Writing counterterrorism : the betrayal of the public intellectual; title: Who's afraid of Truman Capote : writers versus counterterrorists; title: The terrorist as lover : read my terrorist desire; title: Eros, terror, and suicide : life against death; title: Antigone, the terrorist : the passage à l'acte that traverses the subject's fantasy; title: The cold war is dead, long live terrorism; title: Dr. Strangelove meets the terrorist; title: 9/11 and the Iraq War as self-fulfilling prophecies; title: The passion for ignorance and its catch-22.