1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910450620703321

Titolo

The myth of the sacred [[electronic resource] ] : the Charter, the courts and the politics of the constitution in Canada / / edited by Patrick James, Donald E. Abelson and Michael Lusztig

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montreal, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2002

ISBN

1-283-53001-5

9786613842466

0-7735-7057-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (271 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

AbelsonDonald E

JamesPatrick <1957->

LusztigMichael <1962->

Disciplina

342.71/085

Soggetti

Political questions and judicial power - Canada

Civil rights - Canada

Politique et pouvoir judiciaire - Canada

Droits de l'homme - Canada

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : the myth of sacred in the Canadian constitutional order / Patrick James, Donald E. Abelson, and Michael Lusztig -- Judicial review and group status. Judicial rationalism and the therapeutic constitution : The Supreme Court's reconstruction of equality and democratic process under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms / Anthony A. Peacock ; Judicial supervision of the political process : Canadian and American responses to homosexual rights challenges / Mark E. Rush ; The Supreme Court of Canada and the complexity of judicial activism / James B. Kelly -- The Constitution and rational choice theory. Canada's three constitutions : protecting, overturning, and reversing the status quo / Tom Flanagan ; Strategic behaviour and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms / Christopher P. Manfredi -- Non-governmental players in the Constitutional arena. Think tanks, public policy, and constitutional politics in Canada / Donald E. Abelson ; Cooperation and



conflict : group activity in R. v. Keegstra / Shannon Ishiyama Smithey -- The culture of constitution-making in Canada. Deeper and deeper : deep diversity, federalism, and redistributive politics in Canada / Michael Lusztig ; Is a "true" multination federation the cure for our ills? / Hudson Meadwell.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910779592403321

Autore

Anderson Melanie

Titolo

Spectrality in the novels of Toni Morrison / / Melanie R. Anderson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Knoxville, : University of Tennessee Press, c2013

ISBN

1-57233-980-2

1-299-13921-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (184 pages)

Disciplina

813/.54

Soggetti

Ghosts in literature

Future life in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: "What does it mean to follow a ghost" in Toni Morrison's fiction? -- Spectral beginnings in The bluest eye and Sula -- "Why not ghosts as well?" the presence of the spectral in song of solomon and tar baby -- "What would be on the other side?" history as a spectral bridge in Beloved and Paradise -- "The specter as possibility": ghostly narrators in Jazz and Love -- "Slave. Free. I last": spectral returns in A mercy.

Sommario/riassunto

At first glance, Beloved would appear to be the only "ghost story" among Toni Morrison's nine novels, but as this provocative new study shows, spectral presences and places abound in the celebrated author's fiction. Melanie R. Anderson explores how Morrison uses specters to bring the traumas of African American life to the forefront, highlighting histories and experiences, both cultural and personal, that society at large too frequently ignores.     Working against the background of magical realism, while simultaneously expanding notions of the supernatural within American