Drawing the Line : Toward an Aesthetics of Transitional Justice / Carrol Clarkson.
2013
PN56.L33 C58 2014
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Drawing the Line : Toward an Aesthetics of Transitional Justice / Carrol Clarkson.
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9780823254187
Published
New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2013]
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©2013
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English
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In English.
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1 online resource (224 p.)
Item Number
10.1515/9780823254187 doi
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PN56.L33 C58 2014
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809.933554
Summary
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?
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART I. Drawing the Line
1. Drawing the Line
2. Redrawing the Lines
PART II. Crossing the Line
3. Justice and the Art of Transition
4. Intersections: Ethics and Aesthetics
5. Poets, Philosophers, and Other Animals
PART III. Lines of Force
6. Visible and Invisible: What Surfaces in Th ree Johannesburg Novels?
7. Who Are We?
Conclusion
References
Index
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART I. Drawing the Line
1. Drawing the Line
2. Redrawing the Lines
PART II. Crossing the Line
3. Justice and the Art of Transition
4. Intersections: Ethics and Aesthetics
5. Poets, Philosophers, and Other Animals
PART III. Lines of Force
6. Visible and Invisible: What Surfaces in Th ree Johannesburg Novels?
7. Who Are We?
Conclusion
References
Index