ABSTRACT
Studies of the propaganda of nationalist and separatist movements draw attention to the widespread tendency among academics to politicize terrorism. While this approach may be suitable for the analysis of ideologically oriented
groups, it is thought to be totally inappropriate for the study of nationalist ones. Tololyan (1988) and others have argued that political reductionism fails to take into account the extent to which the latter are an integral part of the wider cultural context. Terrorist propaganda is intertextual, and it is therefore imperative to consider the different ways in which it is in dialogue with mainstream national discourse and the master narratives of the culture in question.
