Far from Mecca: Globalizing the Muslim Caribbean - Couverture souple

Khan, Aliyah

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1978806647 ISBN 13 : 9781978806641

Editeur : Rutgers University Press, 2020

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Rutgers University Press
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1978806647
• ISBN 13: 9781978806641
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272
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• Personne responsable: non disponible