Sylvia Wynter
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Sylvia Wynter (Holguín, Cuba, 11 May 1928) is a Jamaican novelist, dramatist, critic, philosopher, and essayist. Her work combines insights from the natural sciences, the humanities, art, and anti-colonial struggles in order to unsettle what she refers to as the "overrepresentation of Man." Black studies, economics, history, neuroscience, psychoanalysis, literary analysis, film analysis, and philosophy are some of the fields she draws on in her scholarly work.
- Works
- The Hills of Hebron, London: Jonathan Cape, 1962. Novel.
- Black Metamorphosis: New Natives in a New World, [1970s], [900] pp. Unpublished manuscript, housed in The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York. Discussion in Small Axe journal (2016).
- Do Not Call Us Negros: How 'Multicultural' Textbooks Perpetuate Racism, intro. & comm. Joyce King, San Francisco: Aspire, 1992, 126 pp.
- Works on Memory of the World
- ARG
- Literature
- Katherine McKittrick (ed.), Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human As Praxis, Duke University Press, 2015, xiii+290 pp.
- Karishma Desai, Brenda Nyandiko Sanya, "Towards Decolonial Praxis: Reconfiguring the Human and the Curriculum", Gender and Education 28:6, 2016, pp 710-724.
- Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, "Open Letter to Sylvia Wynter", The Funambulist 30: "Reparations", Jul-Aug 2020, pp 22-29.
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