Sylvia Wynter
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Jamaican writer
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Sylvia Wynter's Degrees
- Bachelors English University of the West Indies
- Masters English University of the West Indies
- PhD Spanish University of the West Indies
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Sylvia Wynter, O.J. is a Jamaican novelist,[1] dramatist,[2] critic, philosopher, and essayist.[3] 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.
Sylvia Wynter's Published Works
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- Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom: Towards the Human, After Man, Its Overrepresentation--An Argument (2004) (1979)
- Unparalleled Catastrophe for Our Species?: Or, to Give Humanness a Different Future: Conversations (2014) (276)
- The Ceremony Must be Found: After Humanism (1984) (184)
- On How We Mistook the Map for the Territory, and Reimprisoned Ourselves in Our Unbearable Wrongness of Being, of Desêtre: Black Studies Toward the Human Project (2007) (163)
- Towards the Sociogenic Principle: Fanon, Identity, the Puzzle of Conscious Experience, and What It Is Like to Be "Black" (2021) (139)
- Beyond the Word of Man: Glissant and the New Discourse of the Antilles (1989) (119)
- On Disenchanting Discourse: "Minority" Literary Criticism and beyond (1987) (88)
- Beyond the Categories of the Master Conception: The Counterdoctrine of the Jamesian Poiesis (1996) (69)
- The Ceremony Found: Towards the Autopoetic Turn/Overturn, its Autonomy of Human Agency and Extraterritoriality of (Self-)Cognition1 (2015) (66)
- Sambos and Minstrels (1979) (62)
- Hills of Hebron (1962) (42)
- "Genital Mutilation" or "Symbolic Birth?" Female Circumcision, Lost Origins, and the Aculturalism of Feminist/Western Thought (1997) (28)
- On How We Mistook the Map for the Territory, and Re-Imprisoned Ourselves in Our Unbearable Wrongness of Being, of Désêtre (2021) (13)
- Beyond Liberal and Marxist Leninist Feminisms: Towards an Autonomous Frame of Reference (2018) (12)
- Jamaica's national heroes (1971) (4)
- but what does " wonder " do ? meanings , canons , too ? on literary texts , cultural contexts , and what it ' s like to be one / not one of us (2007) (4)
- SYLVIA WYNTER: A TRANSCULTURIST RETHINKING MODERNITY (2016) (2)
- “A Greater Truth than Any Other Truth You Know”: A Conversation with Professor Sylvia Wynter on Origin Stories (2020) (1)
- CHAPTER 1. Yours in the Intellectual Struggle: Sylvia Wynter and the Realization of the Living (2020) (0)
- Afterword : 6 1leyond Miranda ' s Meanings : Un / silencing the 'Demonic Ground ' of Caliban ' s 6 Woman ' " * (2005) (0)
- Computer Experiments for Function Approximations (2007) (0)
- TWELVE SYLVIA WYNTER RETHINKING " AESTHETICS " : NOTFS TOWARDS A DECIPHERING (2021) (0)
- Six Beyond the Categories of the Master Conception : The Counterdoctrine of the famesian Poiesis (2021) (0)
- 11 with Jane Anna Gordon, Of Divine Warning: Reading Disaster in the Modern Age. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2009. x+ 176 pp. (Paperback, 2010) (2013) (0)
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