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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 manne

Religion and literature --- Self-realization in literature. --- Conversion in literature. --- Autobiography --- American prose literature --- Literature --- Literature and religion --- Autobiographies --- Egodocuments --- Memoirs --- Biography as a literary form --- African American autobiography --- Autobiography of African Americans --- American literature --- History --- Mexican American authors. --- African American authors. --- Minority authors --- History and criticism. --- Moral and religious aspects --- History and criticism --- Technique --- Afro-American authors