TY - BOOK ID - 78341374 TI - A culture of rights PY - 2016 SN - 1442625805 9781442625808 9781442631878 1442631872 9781442625792 1442625791 1442625813 PB - Toronto Buffalo London DB - UniCat KW - Canadian literature (English) KW - Legal literature KW - Law and literature KW - Law in literature. KW - Human rights in literature. KW - Civil rights in literature. KW - Politics in literature. KW - Political science in literature KW - Literature and law KW - Literature KW - Law books KW - Lawbooks KW - Law KW - English literature KW - Canadian literature KW - History and criticism. KW - History KW - Canada KW - In literature. KW - Canadian fiction KW - Law in literature KW - Human rights in literature KW - Civil rights in literature KW - Politics in literature KW - 820 <71> KW - 820 <71> Engelse literatuur--Canada KW - Engelse literatuur--Canada KW - History and criticism KW - Canada. KW - Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (Canada) KW - Charte canadienne des droits et liberteĢs (Canada) KW - Charter of Rights and Freedoms (Canada) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78341374 AB - "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."-- ER -