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InA Culture of Rights, Benjamin Authers reads novels by authors including Joy Kogawa, Margaret Atwood, Timothy Findley, and Jeanette Armstrong alongside Canadian legal texts and constitutional rights cases.

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'This book is a good model of interdisciplinarity - Authers succeeds in marrying the different domains of law and literature in a complex and interesting analysis.' -- G.A. McBeath Choice, vol 54:04:2016

Table of Contents
Introduction Chapter One. "This is why Redress Matters": Rights and National Belonging Chapter Two. Excessive Rights: Freedom of Expression and Analogies of Harm Chapter Three. "Nothing but the Pure, Entire, and Unblemished Truth?": Trials, Counter Narratives, and Legal Rights Chapter Four. Allegory, Interpretation, and Equality Rights Chapter Five. "We don't need anybody's Constitution": Indigenous Peoples and Resistance to Rights Conclusion

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      Publisher: University of Toronto Press
      Publication Date: 1/3/2016 12:06:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9781442631878, 978-1442631878
      ISBN10: 1442631872
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      Literary studies: general Human rights, civil rights

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      InA Culture of Rights, Benjamin Authers reads novels by authors including Joy Kogawa, Margaret Atwood, Timothy Findley, and Jeanette Armstrong alongside Canadian legal texts and constitutional rights cases.

      Trade Review
      'This book is a good model of interdisciplinarity - Authers succeeds in marrying the different domains of law and literature in a complex and interesting analysis.' -- G.A. McBeath Choice, vol 54:04:2016

      Table of Contents
      Introduction Chapter One. "This is why Redress Matters": Rights and National Belonging Chapter Two. Excessive Rights: Freedom of Expression and Analogies of Harm Chapter Three. "Nothing but the Pure, Entire, and Unblemished Truth?": Trials, Counter Narratives, and Legal Rights Chapter Four. Allegory, Interpretation, and Equality Rights Chapter Five. "We don't need anybody's Constitution": Indigenous Peoples and Resistance to Rights Conclusion

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