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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, c2011. - 1 online resource (201 p. ) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

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.

9781609380649 1609380649




Religion and literature--History--United States--20th century.
Self-realization in literature.
Conversion in literature.
Autobiography--Mexican American authors.
Autobiography--African American authors.
American prose literature--Minority authors--History and criticism.


Electronic books.

PS366.A88 / W35 2011

818/.540309382042