Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
ISBN:
1978806663
,
197880668X
,
9781978806665
,
9781978806689
Serie:
Critical caribbean studies
Inhalt:
"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"--
Inhalt:
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.
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781978806641
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1978806647
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781978806658
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1978806655
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781978806672
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781978806641
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Khan, Aliyah, 1981- Far from Mecca New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 2020
Sprache:
Englisch
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781978806689
