|
|
Authors: Pierpaolo Antonello and Paul Gifford
Briefing paper.
Author: Fred Smith
Contagion 6 (1999)
Building on ideas of Erik Erikson (negative identity) and W.E.B. Dubois (double consciousness), this essay probes the convoluted scapegoating mechanisms unveiled in Richard Wright’s Black Boy.
Author: David Park
Contagion 15/16 (2008-2009)
A contemporary short story set in the violence of Northern Ireland.
Author: Simon de Keukelaere
Contagion 12/13 (2006)
Virginia Woolf’s secular masterpiece analyzes explicitly mimetic relations among the novel’s notoriously fluid, fragmented characters, and unveils dynamics of idolatry, of illusory transcendence, that preoccupy the author’s own historical consciousness.