Far From Mecca - Globalizing the Muslim Caribbean

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.
 

List of contents

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

About the author

Aliyah Khan is an assistant professor of English and Afroamerican and African studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

 

Product details

• Authors: Aliyah Khan
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9781978806641
• ISBN: 978-1-978806-64-1
• No. of pages: 286
• Series: Critical Caribbean Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Karibik, Süd- und Zentralamerika (inklusive Mexiko), Lateinamerika, Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, Literature - Classics / Criticism, HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / General, RELIGION / Islam / History, LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American