A Culture of Rights: Law, Literature, and Canada - Tapa dura

Authers, Benjamin James

 
9781442631878: A Culture of Rights: Law, Literature, and Canada
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ISBN 10: 1442631872 ISBN 13: 9781442631878
Editorial: University of Toronto Press, 2016

Sinopsis

With the passage into law of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 1982, rights took on new legal, political, and social significance in Canada. In the decades following, Canadian jurisprudence has emphasised the importance of rights, determining their shape and asserting their centrality to legal ideas about what Canada represents. At the same time, an increasing number of Canadian  novels have also engaged with the language of human rights and civil liberties, reflecting, like their counterparts in law, the possibilities of rights and the failure of their protection.

In A Culture of Rights, Benjamin Authers reads novels by authors including Joy Kogawa, Margaret Atwood, Timothy Findley, and Jeanette Armstrong alongside legal texts and key constitutional rights cases, arguing for the need for a more complex, interdisciplinary understanding of the sources of rights in Canada and elsewhere. He suggests that, at present, even when rights are violated, popular insistence on Canada’s rights-driven society remains. Despite the limited scope of our rights, and the deferral of more substantive rights protections to some projected, ideal Canada, we remain keen to promote ourselves as members of an entirely just society.

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Benjamin Authers is a Lecturer in Law in the College of Business Government and Law, Flinders University, South Australia, Chief Editor, Flinders Law Journal, and President of the Association for Canadian Studies in Australia and New Zealand..

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University of Toronto Press
Año de publicación
2016
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ISBN 10 
1442631872
ISBN 13 
9781442631878
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Número de páginas
208
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