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Informationen zum Autor Aliyah Khan is an assistant professor of English and Afroamerican and African studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Klappentext Far from Mecca: Globalizing the Muslim Caribbean is the first academic book on the fiction, poetry, and music of Islam and Muslims in the English-speaking Caribbean. Khan focuses on Guyana, Trinidad, and Jamaica to argue for a regional continuity of Afro- and Indo-Muslim historical and cultural presence. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 About the Author
