The Trouble with Sauling Around : Conversion in Ethnic American Autobiography, 1965-2002 /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Walker, Madeline Ruth, 1958-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Religion and literature > United States > History > 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.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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