TABLE OF CONTENTS; ON REFUSAL; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; SUSTAINING REFUSAL; PLAYING IN THE MARGINS; BURSTING THE BUBBLE; THE ABSENCE OF ALBANIAN JOKES ABOUT SOCIALISM, OR WHY SOME DICTATORSHIPS ARE NOT FUNNY; BRIAN CASTRO'S RADICAL DISORIENTALISM IN SHANGHAI DANCING; C.J. KOCH; SCHIZOPHRENIA'S MULTIPLE REFUSALS; PSYCHOANALYTIC REFUSE IN BECKETT'S COMMENT C'EST / HOW IT IS; SPECTRES OF EURIPIDEAN REFUSAL; REFUSING THE MEDIEVAL OTHER; A TASTE OF REFUSAL; GENERIC INTRIGUE; CONTRIBUTORS
Summary
The Politics and Aesthetics of Refusal is an eclectic collection of essays from emerging academics who engage with the notion of ""refusal"" both as the embodiment of a resistance to conventional boundaries between academic disciplines, and as a concept wit
Notes
"The Politics and Aesthetics of Refusal began life as a postgraduate humanities conference held in April 2005"--Page xii
