Drawing the Line: Toward an Aesthetics of Transitional Justice

by Carrol Clarkson

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082325416X
• ISBN13: 9780823254163
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"