The trouble with Sauling around

Walker, Madeline Ruth, 1958-

The trouble with Sauling around conversion in ethnic American autobiography, 1965-2002 / [electronic resource] : Madeline Ruth Walker. - Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2011. - 201 p.

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.


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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--History--United States--20th century.


Electronic books.

PS366.A88 / W35 2011eb

818/.540309382042