Drawing the Line

<p><em>Drawing the Line</em> 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.</p><p>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?</p>