03160nam 2200649 a 450 991080697610332120240516113149.01-60938-064-9(CKB)2550000000039846(EBL)843350(OCoLC)741365070(SSID)ssj0000526268(PQKBManifestationID)11913835(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000526268(PQKBWorkID)10522315(PQKB)10034757(MiAaPQ)EBC843350(MdBmJHUP)muse16014(Au-PeEL)EBL843350(CaPaEBR)ebr10482360(EXLCZ)99255000000003984620110307d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe trouble with Sauling around[electronic resource] conversion in ethnic American autobiography, 1965-2002 /Madeline Ruth Walker1st ed.Iowa City University of Iowa Press20111 online resource (217 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-60938-063-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction : the trouble with conversion -- Conversion and the intractable Saul : The autobiography of Malcolm X -- Conversion, deconversion, and reversion : Oscar Zeta Acosta's autofictions -- Serial conversion and Pauling around: Amiri Baraka's The autobiography of Leroi Jones -- Converting the church : Richard Rodriguez and the browning of catholicism -- Conclusion: Unlinking religious belief and identity. Examining autobiographical texts by Malcolm X (The Autobiography of Malcolm X), Oscar Zeta Acosta (The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo and Revolt of the Cockroach People), Amiri Baraka (The Autobiography of LeRoi Jones), and Richard Rodriguez (Hunger of Memory, Days of Obligation, and Brown), Walker questions the often rosy views and simplistic binary conceptions of religious conversion. Her reading of these texts takes into account the conflict and serial changes the authors experience in a society that marginalizes them, the manneAmerican prose literatureMinority authorsHistory and criticismAutobiographyAfrican American authorsAutobiographyMexican American authorsConversion in literatureSelf-realization in literatureReligion and literatureUnited StatesHistory20th centuryAmerican prose literatureMinority authorsHistory and criticism.AutobiographyAfrican American authors.AutobiographyMexican American authors.Conversion in literature.Self-realization in literature.Religion and literatureHistory818/.540309382042Walker Madeline Ruth1958-1607005MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910806976103321The trouble with Sauling around3933069UNINA