Drawing The Line: Toward An Aesthetics Of Transitional Justice (just Ideas (fup))
by Carrol Clarkson /
2013 / English / PDF
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Drawing the Line examines the ways in which cultural, political,
and legal lines are imagined, drawn, crossed, erased, and redrawn
in post-apartheid South Africa through literary texts, artworks,
and other forms of cultural production. Under the rubric of a
philosophy of the limit and with reference to a range of signifying
acts and events, this book asks what it takes to recalibrate a
sociopolitical scene, shifting perceptions of what counts and what
matters, of what can be seen and heard, of what can be valued or
regarded as meaningful.
Drawing the Line examines the ways in which cultural, political,
and legal lines are imagined, drawn, crossed, erased, and redrawn
in post-apartheid South Africa through literary texts, artworks,
and other forms of cultural production. Under the rubric of a
philosophy of the limit and with reference to a range of signifying
acts and events, this book asks what it takes to recalibrate a
sociopolitical scene, shifting perceptions of what counts and what
matters, of what can be seen and heard, of what can be valued or
regarded as meaningful.
The book thus argues for an aesthetics of transitional justice and
makes an appeal for a postapartheid aesthetic inquiry, as opposed
to simply a political or a legal one. Each chapter brings a South
African artwork, text, speech, building, or social encounter into
conversation with debates in critical theory and continental
philosophy, asking: What challenge do these South African acts of
signification and resignification pose to current
literary-philosophical debates?
The book thus argues for an aesthetics of transitional justice and
makes an appeal for a postapartheid aesthetic inquiry, as opposed
to simply a political or a legal one. Each chapter brings a South
African artwork, text, speech, building, or social encounter into
conversation with debates in critical theory and continental
philosophy, asking: What challenge do these South African acts of
signification and resignification pose to current
literary-philosophical debates?
