UID:
almafu_9959391612802883
Format:
1 online resource (286 p.) :
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10 B&W images
ISBN:
9781978806689
Series Statement:
Critical Caribbean Studies
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, 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.
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Frontmatter --
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CONTENTS --
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INTRODUCTION --
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1. BLACK LITERARY ISLAM --
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2. SILENCE AND SUICIDE --
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3. THE MARVELOUS MUSLIM --
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4. “MUSLIM TIME” --
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5. MIMIC MAN AND ETHNORIENTALIST --
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CONCLUSION --
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --
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NOTES --
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BIBLIOGRAPHY --
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INDEX --
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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In English.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.36019/9781978806689
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781978806689
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781978806689
