Sylvia Wynter is a Jamaican novelist, dramatist, critic, philosopher and essayist whose work draws on the natural sciences, the humanities, art and anti-colonial struggle to challenge what she calls the overrepresentation of Man, the assumption that one historically specific, Western conception of the human stands for humanity as a whole. Her scholarship ranges across Black studies, economics, history, neuroscience, psychoanalysis, literary analysis and film analysis, using each field to question the categories through which the human has been defined.
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Sylvia Wynter (born 11 May 1928) is a Jamaican novelist, dramatist, critic, philosopher, and essayist.
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Sylvia Wynter (born 11 May 1928) is a Jamaican novelist, dramatist, critic, philosopher, and essayist.
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Sylvia Wynter (born 11 May 1928) is a Jamaican novelist, dramatist, critic, philosopher, and essayist.
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Wynter has since written numerous essays in which she seeks to rethink the fullness of human ontologies, which, she argues, have been curtailed by what she describes as an over-representation of (western bourgeois) Man as
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