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Author:

Walker, Madeline Ruth, 1958-

Title:

The trouble with Sauling around : conversion in ethnic American autobiography, 1965-2002 / Madeline Ruth Walker.

Publisher:

University of Iowa Press,

Copyright Date:

2011

Description:

201 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN:

1609380649 (e-book)
9781609380649 (e-book)
1609380630 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
9781609380632 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)706467092

LCCN:

2011008232

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)