Drawing the line : toward an aesthetics of transitional justice / Carrol Clarkson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clarkson, Carrol, 1968-

Series:

Just ideas

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Justice in literature.

Law and aesthetics.

Law and ethics.

Transitional justice--South Africa.

Transitional justice.

Authors, South African--Aesthetics.

Authors, South African.

Aesthetics.

South Africa.

Physical Description:

xiii, 204 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2014.

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 post-apartheid 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? Book jacket.

Contents:

Drawing the line

Redrawing the lines

Justice and the art of transition

Intersections : ethics and aesthetics

Poets, philosophers, and other animals

Visible and invisible : what surfaces in three Johannesburg novels?

Who are we?.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-198) and index.

ISBN:

9780823254156

0823254151

9780823254163

082325416X

OCLC:

829999706