{"product_id":"9780823254170","title":"Drawing the Line: Toward an Aesthetics of Transitional Justice","description":"\u003cp\u003eDrawing 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47130445447408,"sku":"9780823254170","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780823254170_p0.jpg?v=1763750461","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780823254170","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}