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 marginalizes them, the manner in which religious conversion offers...
Examining autobiographical texts by Malcolm X ("The Autobiography of Malcolm X"), Oscar Zeta Acosta ("The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo" and "Re...