Abstract
This essay takes up Robert Cover’s account, in “Nomos and Narrative” of Constitutional Epics. Ranging across legal and literary texts including Toni Morrison’s Beloved, David Malouf’s An Imaginary Life, the Canadian Arar Commission Report, and Bringing Them Home, the Report of the Australian Human Rights and Opportunity Commission’s National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families, it concludes that what comparative study of Constitutions and their Epics might yield are brutal truths and the judgments of history, but also insights into how we might make of that unpromising material a nomos and a narrative of redemptive Constitutionalism.
Disciplines
Immigration Law | Jurisprudence
Date of this Version
March 2009
Recommended Citation
Pether, Penelope J., "Comparative Constitutional Epics" (2009). Working Paper Series. 130.
https://digitalcommons.law.villanova.edu/wps/art130
Comments
This article has been published in 21(1) Law and Literature 106 (2009)