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The Jamaican writer and cultural theorist Sylvia Wynter is best known for her diverse writings that pull together insights from theories in history, literature, science, and black studies, to explore race, the legacy of colonialism, and representations of humanness. Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human as Praxis is a critical genealogy of Wynter's work, highlighting her insights on how race, location, and time together inform what it means to be human. The contributors explore Wynter's stunning reconceptualization of the human in relation to concepts of blackness, modernity, urban space, the Caribbean, science studies, migratory politics, and the interconnectedness of creative and theoretical resistances. The collection includes an extensive conversation between Sylvia Wynter and Katherine McKittrick that delineates Wynter's engagement with writers such as Frantz Fanon, W. E. B. DuBois, and Aime Cesaire, among others; the interview also reveals the ever-extending range and power of Wynter's intellectual project, and elucidates her attempts to rehistoricize humanness as praxis.Product Identifiers
PublisherDuke University Press
ISBN-139780822358343
eBay Product ID (ePID)209434067
Product Key Features
Book TitleSylvia Wynter: on Being Human As Praxis
AuthorKatherine Mckittrick
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicSocial Sciences, Literature, History
Publication Year2015
TypeTextbook
Number of Pages304 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height229mm
Item Width152mm
Additional Product Features
Topic AreaGender Issues
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
EditorKatherine Mckittrick