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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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.