Far from Mecca : Globalizing the Muslim Caribbean /
Khan, Aliyah
Far from Mecca : Globalizing the Muslim Caribbean / Aliyah Khan. - 1 online resource (286 p.) : 10 B&W images - Critical Caribbean Studies .
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. BLACK LITERARY ISLAM -- 2. SILENCE AND SUICIDE -- 3. THE MARVELOUS MUSLIM -- 4. “MUSLIM TIME” -- 5. MIMIC MAN AND ETHNORIENTALIST -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Honorable Mention, 2022 MLA Prize for a First Book 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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781978806689
10.36019/9781978806689 doi
2019028327
Islam--Caribbean, English-speaking.
Muslims--Caribbean, English-speaking.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
fiction, poetry, musics, Muslin, Caribbean, nineteenth century, Jamaica, Trinidad, El Dorado, Critical Caribbean Studies, Globalizing, racializing Islam, gender, postcolonial, culture, Afro-Muslin, Indo-Muslin, Post-Plantation Modernity, Fullawomen, Caribbean Studies, Religion, Ethnic Studies, Anthropology, Latin American Studies, Literature, Literary Studies, Cultural Studies, Social science, criticism, literacy, Black History.
F2191.M87 / K43 2020 F2191.M87 / K43 2020
305.6/970729
Far from Mecca : Globalizing the Muslim Caribbean / Aliyah Khan. - 1 online resource (286 p.) : 10 B&W images - Critical Caribbean Studies .
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. BLACK LITERARY ISLAM -- 2. SILENCE AND SUICIDE -- 3. THE MARVELOUS MUSLIM -- 4. “MUSLIM TIME” -- 5. MIMIC MAN AND ETHNORIENTALIST -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Honorable Mention, 2022 MLA Prize for a First Book 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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781978806689
10.36019/9781978806689 doi
2019028327
Islam--Caribbean, English-speaking.
Muslims--Caribbean, English-speaking.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
fiction, poetry, musics, Muslin, Caribbean, nineteenth century, Jamaica, Trinidad, El Dorado, Critical Caribbean Studies, Globalizing, racializing Islam, gender, postcolonial, culture, Afro-Muslin, Indo-Muslin, Post-Plantation Modernity, Fullawomen, Caribbean Studies, Religion, Ethnic Studies, Anthropology, Latin American Studies, Literature, Literary Studies, Cultural Studies, Social science, criticism, literacy, Black History.
F2191.M87 / K43 2020 F2191.M87 / K43 2020
305.6/970729