The Trouble with Sauling Around: Conversion in Ethnic by Madeline Ruth Walker
By Madeline Ruth Walker
Examining autobiographical texts by means of Malcolm X (The Autobiography of Malcolm X), Oscar Zeta Acosta (The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo and Revolt of the Cockroach People), Amiri Baraka (The Autobiography of LeRoi Jones), and Richard Rodriguez (Hunger of Memory, Days of Obligation, and Brown), Walker questions the customarily rosy perspectives and simplistic binary conceptions of spiritual conversion. Her studying of those texts takes under consideration the clash and serial adjustments the authors event in a society that marginalizes them, the way within which spiritual conversion deals ethnic american citizens “salvation” via cultural assimilation or cultural nationalism, and what conversion, anticonversion, and deconversion narratives let us know in regards to the problematical results of faith that frequently move unremarked as a result of a code of “special recognize” and political correctness.
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