Be always converting, be always converted
Subtitle: an American poetics
By: Rob Wilson.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
ISBN-13: 9780674033436
Subjects: Conversion -- Christianity -- Biography; Christian converts -- Biography; United States -- Religion
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Conversions against empire : and afterward we were born again, and many times; title: The poetics and politics of Henry Akahaia's conversion; title: Henry, torn from the stomach : translating Hawaiian conversion into dynamics of outer-national becoming; title: Be always converting and be always converted : conversion experience as self-formation and semiotic becoming; title: Writing down the Lava Road from Damascus to Kona : counter-conversion and re-nativization in Epeli hau of as Oceania; title: Regeneration through violence : multiple masks of alter-becoming in the Japanese/African/American poet, Ai; title: Becoming Jeremiah inside the U.S. empire : on the born-again refigurations of Bob Dylan; title: Epilogue: Conversions through literature : writing trans-Pacific becoming from Connecticut to Hawaii and Asia/Pacific.