“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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Главный автор: Richards, Isaac James (Автор)
Формат: Электронный ресурс Статья
Язык:Английский
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Опубликовано: 2025
В: Religion and the arts
Год: 2025, Том: 29, Выпуск: 1/2, Страницы: 144-156
Другие ключевые слова:B Spirituality
B Postsecularism
B Ислам (мотив)
B Christianity
B Temporality
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Итог: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.
ISSN:1568-5292
Второстепенные работы:Enthalten in: Religion and the arts
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15685292-02901004