Aliyah Khan

Far from Mecca: Globalizing the Muslim Caribbean

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Produktbeschreibung

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.  

Produktdetails

• Critical Caribbean Studies
• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Altersempfehlung: ab 18 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. April 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 757g
• ISBN-13: 9781978806658
• ISBN-10: 1978806655
• Artikelnr.: 57570580

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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