CONTAGION:
JOURNAL OF VIOLENCE, MIMESIS, AND CULTURE

VOLUME 8 (SPRING 2001)

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CONTENTS:

Barahona, Angel: From Cain and Abel to Esau and Jacob 1

Cousineau, Thomas J.: »The Great Gatsby«: Romance or Holocaust 21

Wydra, Harald: Human Nature and Politics: A Mimetic Reading of Crisis and Conflict in the Work of Machiavelli 36

Munyaneza, Malachie:Violence as Institution in African Religious Experience: A Case Study of Rwanda 39

Piven, Jerry: Mimetic Sadism in the Fiction of Yukio Mishima 69

Dykes, Lillian E.: Mimetic Theory and the Program of Alcoholics Anonymous 90

Ouzgane, Lahoucine: Desire, Emulation, and Envy in »The Portrait of a Lady« 114

Lascaris, André: Peace Education and the Northern Irish Conflict 135

Hamerton-Kelly, Robert: The Mob and the Victim in the Psalms of Job 151

Johnston, Britton W.: Repenting of Retributionism 161

Hajj, Ralph: Gauguin: The Oscillating Structure of Disguise 167

Notes on Contributors 185