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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Khan, Aliyah, 1981- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 2020.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Muslims.
Islam.
Ethnic relations.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Islam > Antilles anglophones.
Musulmans > Antilles anglophones.
Islam > Caribbean, English-speaking.
Muslims > Caribbean, English-speaking.
English-speaking Caribbean Area.
Antilles anglophones > Relations interethniques.
Caribbean, English-speaking > Ethnic relations.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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