Postsecular return of religion: Jewish and Zen elements in Zadie Smith’s The autograph man

Exploring death and grief : Zen in Zadie Smith's The Autograph Man

“…Andrew Furman (2005), Sigrun Meinig (2007), and Magdalena Mączyńska (2009) analyses the Jewishness of the novel, the latter including it within postsecular literature. More recently, Songyun Zheng (2018) has analyses this postsecular view in order to emphasise "the role religion plays in identity formation and narrative construction" (para. 2).…”