The trouble with Sauling around [[electronic resource] ] : conversion in ethnic American autobiography, 1965-2002 / / Madeline Ruth Walker

• Autore: Walker Madeline Ruth <1958->
• Pubblicazione: Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, 2011
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (217 p.)
• Disciplina: 818/.540309382042
• Soggetto topico: American prose literature - Minority authors - History and criticism; Autobiography - African American authors; Autobiography - Mexican American authors; Conversion in literature; Self-realization in literature; Religion and literature - United States - History - 20th century
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: The trouble with Sauling around
• ISBN: 1-60938-064-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910806976103321
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