Far from Mecca : globalizing the Muslim Caribbean /

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"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 to argue for a hist...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Khan, Aliyah, 1981- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 2020.
Colección:Critical Caribbean studies.
Temas:
Muslims > Caribbean, English-speaking.
Islam > Caribbean, English-speaking.
Musulmans > Antilles anglophones.
Islam > Antilles anglophones.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Ethnic relations
Islam
Muslims
Caribbean, English-speaking > Ethnic relations.
Antilles anglophones > Relations interethniques.
English-speaking Caribbean Area
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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