LEADER 03160nam 2200649 a 450 001 9910806976103321 005 20240516113149.0 010 $a1-60938-064-9 035 $a(CKB)2550000000039846 035 $a(EBL)843350 035 $a(OCoLC)741365070 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000526268 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11913835 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000526268 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10522315 035 $a(PQKB)10034757 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC843350 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse16014 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL843350 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10482360 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000039846 100 $a20110307d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe trouble with Sauling around$b[electronic resource] $econversion in ethnic American autobiography, 1965-2002 /$fMadeline Ruth Walker 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aIowa City $cUniversity of Iowa Press$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (217 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-60938-063-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction : 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. 330 $a 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 manne 606 $aAmerican prose literature$xMinority authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAutobiography$xAfrican American authors 606 $aAutobiography$xMexican American authors 606 $aConversion in literature 606 $aSelf-realization in literature 606 $aReligion and literature$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 615 0$aAmerican prose literature$xMinority authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAutobiography$xAfrican American authors. 615 0$aAutobiography$xMexican American authors. 615 0$aConversion in literature. 615 0$aSelf-realization in literature. 615 0$aReligion and literature$xHistory 676 $a818/.540309382042 700 $aWalker$b Madeline Ruth$f1958-$01607005 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910806976103321 996 $aThe trouble with Sauling around$93933069 997 $aUNINA