Format:
vii, 260 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
ISBN:
9781978806641
,
9781978806658
Series Statement:
Critical Caribbean studies
Content:
Introduction: Muslims in/of the Caribbean -- 1. Black Literary Islam: Enslaved Learned Men in Jamaica, and the Hidden Sufi Aesthetic -- 2. Silence and Suicide: Indo-Caribbean Fullawomen in Post-Plantation Modernity -- 3. The Marvelous Muslim: Limbo, Logophagy, and Islamic Indigeneity in Guyana's El Dorado -- 4. "Muslim Time": The Muslimeen Coup and Calypso in the Trinidad Imaginary -- 5. Mimic Man and Ethnorientalist: Global Caribbean Islam and the Specter of Terror -- Conclusion: "Gods, I Suppose" -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography
Content:
"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 to argue for a historical continuity of Afro- and Indo-Muslim presence and cultural production in the Caribbean: 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 1990 Jamaat al-Muslimeen attempted government coup in Trinidad and its calypso music, to judicial cases of contemporary interaction between 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"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, EPUB ISBN 978-1-978806-66-5
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, MOBI ISBN 978-1-978806-67-2
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, PDF ISBN 978-1-978806-68-9
Language:
English
Subjects:
Theology
Keywords:
Anglophone Karibik
;
Islam
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