Far from Mecca: Globalizing the Muslim Caribbean
Far from Mecca: Globalizing the Muslim Caribbean is the first academic work on Muslims in the English-speaking Caribbean. Khan focuses on the fiction, poetry, and music of Islam in Guyana, Trinidad, and Jamaica. Combining archival research, ethnography, and literary analysis, Khan argues for a histo...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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New Brunswick, NJ
Rutgers University Press
[2020]
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| In: | Year: 2020 |
| Series/Journal: | Critical Caribbean Studies
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| Further subjects: | B
Muslims (Caribbean, English-speaking)
B Islam (Caribbean, English-speaking) B LITERARY CRITICISM / Generals |
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| Summary: | Far from Mecca: Globalizing the Muslim Caribbean is the first academic work on Muslims in the English-speaking Caribbean. Khan focuses on the fiction, poetry, and music of Islam in Guyana, Trinidad, and Jamaica. Combining archival research, ethnography, and literary analysis, Khan argues for a historical continuity of Afro- and Indo-Muslim presence and cultural production in the Caribbean. Case studies explored range from Arabic-language autobiographical and religious texts written by enslaved Sufi West Africans in nineteenth-century Jamaica, to early twentieth-century fictions of post-indenture South Asian Muslim indigeneity and El Dorado, to the attempted government coup in 1990 by the Jamaat al-Muslimeen in Trinidad, as well as the island’s calypso music, to contemporary judicial cases concerning Caribbean Muslims and global terrorism. Khan argues that the Caribbean Muslim subject, the “fullaman,” a performative identity that relies on gendering and racializing Islam, troubles discourses of creolization that are fundamental to postcolonial nationalisms in the Caribbean Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. BLACK LITERARY ISLAM -- 2. SILENCE AND SUICIDE -- 3. THE MARVELOUS MUSLIM -- 4. “MUSLIM TIME” -- 5. MIMIC MAN AND ETHNORIENTALIST -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
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| Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
| ISBN: | 197880668X |
| Access: | Restricted Access |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.36019/9781978806689 |