The trouble with Sauling around : conversion in ethnic American autobiography, 1965-2002 / Madeline Ruth Walker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Walker, Madeline Ruth, 1958-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American prose literature--Minority authors--History and criticism.

American prose literature.

Autobiography--African American authors.

Autobiography.

Autobiography--Mexican American authors.

Conversion in literature.

Self-realization in literature.

Religion and literature--United States--History--20th century.

Religion and literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781609380649

1609380649

OCLC:

741365070