{"product_id":"far-from-mecca","title":"Far from Mecca","description":"\u003cb\u003eHonorable Mention, 2022 MLA Prize for a First Book\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003eFar from Mecca: Globalizing the Muslim Caribbean\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e   ","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54242933014872,"sku":"9781978806658","price":132.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781978806658_48b48503-fe92-45d1-9158-3dba85a1ce4c.jpg?v=1777691730","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/far-from-mecca","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}