Title A culture of rights : law, literature, and Canada / Benjamin Authers

Published Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2016

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Description 1 online resource Contents Introduction -- "This is why redress matters" : rights and national belonging -- Excessive rights : freedom of expression and analogies of harm -- "Nothing but the pure, entire, and unblemished truth?" : trials, counter narratives, and legal rights -- Allegory, interpretation, and equality rights -- "We don't need anybody's constitution" : Indigenous peoples and resistance to rights -- Conclusion Summary "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."-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 8, 2016) Subject Canada. Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms SUBJECT Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (Canada) fast Subject Legal literature -- Canada -- History -- 20th century Law and literature -- Canada Law in literature. Human rights in literature. Civil rights in literature. Politics in literature. Canadian literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. LAW -- General. Civil rights in literature Human rights in literature Law and literature Law in literature Legal literature Literature Politics in literature SUBJECT Canada -- In literature Subject Canada Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781442625808 1442625805

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