Far from Mecca
Globalizing the Muslim Caribbean
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2020
University of the West Indies Press (Verlag)
978-976-640-804-6 (ISBN)
University of the West Indies Press (Verlag)
978-976-640-804-6 (ISBN)
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.
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.
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.
Aliyah Khan is an assistant professor of English and Afroamerican and African studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Introduction: Muslims in / of the Caribbean 1
1 Black Literary Islam: Enslaved Learned Men in Jamaicaand the Hidden Sufi Aesthetic 35
2 Silence and Suicide: Indo-Caribbean Fullawomen inPost-Plantation Modernity 68
3 The Marvelous Muslim: Limbo, Logophagy, andIslamic Indigeneity in Guyana's El Dorado 103
4 ""Muslim Time"": The Muslimeen Coup and Calypsoin the Trinidad Imaginary 134
5 Mimic Man and Ethnorientalist: Global Caribbean Islamand the Specter of Terror 172
Conclusion: ""Gods, I Suppose"" 204
Acknowledgments 209
Notes 213
Bibliography 239
Index 257
| Erscheinungsdatum | 23.11.2020 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Kingston |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 228 mm |
| Gewicht | 404 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien | |
| ISBN-10 | 976-640-804-1 / 9766408041 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-976-640-804-6 / 9789766408046 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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