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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New Brunswick, New Jersey :
Rutgers University Press,
[2020]
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| Series: | Critical Caribbean studies.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.