RT Article
T1 “We Fly Forgotten as a Dream”: A Theology of American Memory in Contemporary Postsecular Literature
JF Religion and the arts
VO 29
IS 1/2
SP 144
OP 156
A1 Richards, Isaac James
LA English
YR 2025
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/192056411X
AB 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.
K1 Postsecularism
K1 Islam
K1 Christianity
K1 Temporality
K1 Spirituality
DO 10.1163/15685292-02901004