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Book SynopsisMakes a contribution to contemporary aesthetic discourses through conversations on the borderlines of philosophy and literature, literature and the law, law and politics, politics and justice, justice and art in post -apartheid South Africa.
Trade Review"Clarkson's book shows us in so many ways that the post-apartheid world is by no means a given world and that the question of its possibility will depend on whether we are still able to become aware again of - and willing to act ethically and politically upon - our poetic potentiality to bring forth a world that would aesthetically be other than and other to the Nietzschean eternal recurrence of 'the worst'." -- -Jaco Barnard-Naude SA Journal of Law, 131.4 "Drawing the Line is itself a boundary-crossing book in the sense that it pulls evidence from an extraordinarily wide range of disciplines: law, art and architecture, literature and literary theory, philosophy." -H-AfrArts "Drawing the Line will appeal to readers working in a variety of scholarly fields: it is an important text for anyone grounded in contemporary South African literary and cultural studies, offers rich contributions to interdisciplinary studies of transitional justice and jurisprudence, and will be valuable for scholars working at the intersection of ethics and aesthetics as well as those exploring the impacts of posthumanism on projects of social transformation." -Ariel: A Review of International English Literature "One rarely comes across work of such intelligence and imagination. This book is beautifully written and one finds oneself forever being caught out by wonderful and unpredicted connections, turns of phrase, the ease and acuity with which insights from disparate fields are brought together and developed." -- -Emilios Christodoulidis University of Glasgow "What makes Clarkson's project truly dialogical-and what distinguishes it from a number of other analyses of contemporary South African culture and literature-is that she both reads South African culture in terms of theory but also examines and, indeed displays, what South African culture might also offer theory." -- -Russell Samolsky University of California, Santa Barbara
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 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 Three Johannesburg Novels? 7. Who Are We? Conclusion Notes References Index
