“We Fly Forgotten as a Dream”: A Theology of American Memory in Contemporary Postsecular Literature
Via an analysis of Marilynne Robinson’s novel Gilead, Fatima Farheen Mirza’s A Place for Us, and Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men, I argue that the spiritual nature of memory is a defining feature of contemporary postsecular American literature. I also point out a few key differences between...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2025
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Religion and the arts
Year: 2025, Volume: 29, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 144-156 |
| Further subjects: | B
Spirituality
B Islam B Postsecularism B Christianity B Temporality |
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| Summary: | Via an analysis of Marilynne Robinson’s novel Gilead, Fatima Farheen Mirza’s A Place for Us, and Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men, I argue that the spiritual nature of memory is a defining feature of contemporary postsecular American literature. I also point out a few key differences between European and American memory, largely by reference to work by Willa Cather and Italo Calvino, to help strengthen my case that American memory specifically is a spiritual and postsecular phenomenon. |
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| ISSN: | 1568-5292 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religion and the arts
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685292-02901004 |
