Far from Mecca : : Globalizing the Muslim Caribbean / / Aliyah Khan.
Honorable Mention, 2022 MLA Prize for a First Book 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, ethnogra...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 English |
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Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2020] ©2020 |
Year of Publication: | 2020 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Critical Caribbean Studies
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (286 p.) :; 10 B&W images |
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Other title: | 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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Summary: | Honorable Mention, 2022 MLA Prize for a First Book 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. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9781978806689 9783110704716 9783110704518 9783110704747 9783110704532 9783110690330 |
DOI: | 10.36019/9781978806689?locatt=mode:legacy |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Aliyah Khan. |