The trouble with Sauling around
Subtitle: conversion in ethnic American autobiography, 1965-2002
By: Madeline Ruth Walker
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Iowa City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
ISBN-13: 9781609380632; 9781609380649
Subjects: Autobiography; Self-realization in literature; Conversion in literature; Mexican American authors; American prose literature; History and criticism; Religion and literature; Minority authors; African American authors; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The trouble with conversion; title: Conversion and the intractable Saul: The autobiography of Malcolm X; title: Conversion, deconversion, and reversion: Oscar Zeta Acosta's autofictions; title: Serial conversion and Pauling around: Amiri Baraka's The autobiography of Leroi Jones; title: Converting the church: Richard Rodriguez and the browning of catholicism; title: Conclusion: Unlinking religious belief and identity.