TY  - BOOK
AU  - Khan,Aliyah
TI  - Far from Mecca: Globalizing the Muslim Caribbean 
T2  - Critical Caribbean Studies
SN  - 9781978806689
AV  - F2191.M87 K43 2020
U1  - 305.6/970729 23
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - New Brunswick, NJ
PB  - Rutgers University Press
KW  - Islam
KW  - Caribbean, English-speaking
KW  - Muslims
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - 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
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.36019/9781978806689?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781978806689
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781978806689/original
ER  -