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