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UNINA9910450620703321 |
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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 |
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Montreal, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2002 |
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1-283-53001-5 |
9786613842466 |
0-7735-7057-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (271 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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AbelsonDonald E |
JamesPatrick <1957-> |
LusztigMichael <1962-> |
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Political questions and judicial power - Canada |
Civil rights - Canada |
Politique et pouvoir judiciaire - Canada |
Droits de l'homme - Canada |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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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 |
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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. |
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UNINA9910779592403321 |
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Anderson Melanie |
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Spectrality in the novels of Toni Morrison / / Melanie R. Anderson |
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Knoxville, : University of Tennessee Press, c2013 |
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1-57233-980-2 |
1-299-13921-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (184 pages) |
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Ghosts in literature |
Future life in literature |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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