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The Trouble with Sauling Around - Conversion in Ethnic American Autobiography, 1965-2002 (Paperback)
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The Trouble with Sauling Around - Conversion in Ethnic American Autobiography, 1965-2002 (Paperback)
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In The Trouble with Sauling Around, Madeline Walker probes the
complex and troubled relationship between ethnicity, society, and
religious conversion in late twentieth-century African American and
Mexican American autobiography. Religious conversion the turning
away from an old, sinful life toward a new life of salvation
manifests as an intensely personal experience, yet it calls into
play a wide variety of social, cultural, economic, racial,
political, and psychological forces. Thus, constant change and the
negotiation of resistance to and assimilation within the dominant
culture have been seminal topics for ethnic Americans, just as the
conversion narrative is often a central genre in ethnic writing,
particularly autobiographical writing. Examining autobiographical
texts by 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 often rosy views and simplistic binary
conceptions of religious conversion. Her reading of these texts
takes into account the conflict and serial changes the authors
experience in a society that marginalises them, the manner in which
religious conversion offers ethnic Americans "salvation" through
cultural assimilation or cultural nationalism, and what conversion,
anticonversion, and deconversion narratives tell us about the
problematic effects of religion that often go unremarked because of
a code of "special respect" and political correctness. Walker
asserts that critics have been too willing to praise religion in
America as salutary or beyond the ken of criticism because
religious belief is seen as belonging to an untouchable arena of
cultural identity. The Trouble with Sauling Around goes beyond
traditional literary criticism to pay close attention to the social
phenomena that underlie religious conversion narratives and
considers the potentially negative effects of religious conversion,
something that has been likewise neglected by scholars.
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