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 to argue for a historical c...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New Brunswick, New Jersey :
Rutgers University Press,
[2020]
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| Series: | Critical Caribbean studies.
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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 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. |
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| Physical Description: | vii, 260 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781978806641 1978806647 9781978806658 1978806655 |