Sylvia Wynter
Title
Sylvia Wynter
Birth Date
1928
Birthplace
Cuba-Jamaica
Primary Sources
Wynter, S. (2022). We must learn to sit down together and talk about a little culture: Decolonizing essays, 1967–1984. Peepal Tree Press, Limited.
Wynter, S. & McKittrick, K. (2015). Unparalleled Catastrophe for Our Species? Or, to Give Humanness a Different Future, Conversations. In McKittrick, K. (Ed.) sylvia wynter: on being human as praxis, Duke Univeristy Press.
https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822375852-002
Wynter, S. (2015) The Ceremony Found: Towards the Autopoetic Turn/Overturn, Its Autonomy of Human Agency and Extraterritoriality of (Self-)Cognition, In Ambroise, J. R and Bröck-Sallah, S (Eds) Black Knowledges/Black Struggles: Essays in Critical Epistemology, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press.
Wynter, S. (2003). Unsettling the coloniality of being/power/truth/freedom: Towards the human, after man, its overrepresentation—An argument. CR: The new centennial review, 3(3): 257–337.
https://doi.org/10.1353/ncr.2004.0015.
Wynter, S. (1996). Is development a purely empirical concept or also teleological? A perspective from “we-the-underdeveloped.” In Yansane, A. (Ed.), Prospects for recovery and sustainable development in Africa (pp. 301–16). Greenwood Press.
Wynter, S. (1994) No Humans Involved: An Open Letter to My Colleagues. Forum NHI: Knowledge for the 21st Century 1, (1): 42-71.
Wynter, S. (1992). Beyond the categories of the master conception: The counterdoctrine of the Jamesian Poiesis. In Henry, P. & Buhle, P.(Eds.), C.L.R. James’s Caribbean (pp. 63–91). Duke University Press.
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822382386-007
Wynter, S. (1992) Rethinking “Aesthetics”: Notes Towards a Deciphering Practice, In Cham, M.B (Ed). Ex-iles: Essays on Caribbean Cinema. New
Jersey: Africa World Press.
Wynter, S. (1990) Afterword: Beyond Miranda’s Meanings: Un/silencing the ‘Demonic Ground’ of Caliban’s ‘Woman’, In Davies, C. B and Savory Fido, K. (Eds) Out of the Kumbla: Caribbean
Women and Literature, edited by, 355-72. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1990
Wynter, S. & McKittrick, K. (2015). Unparalleled Catastrophe for Our Species? Or, to Give Humanness a Different Future, Conversations. In McKittrick, K. (Ed.) sylvia wynter: on being human as praxis, Duke Univeristy Press.
https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822375852-002
Wynter, S. (2015) The Ceremony Found: Towards the Autopoetic Turn/Overturn, Its Autonomy of Human Agency and Extraterritoriality of (Self-)Cognition, In Ambroise, J. R and Bröck-Sallah, S (Eds) Black Knowledges/Black Struggles: Essays in Critical Epistemology, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press.
Wynter, S. (2003). Unsettling the coloniality of being/power/truth/freedom: Towards the human, after man, its overrepresentation—An argument. CR: The new centennial review, 3(3): 257–337.
https://doi.org/10.1353/ncr.2004.0015.
Wynter, S. (1996). Is development a purely empirical concept or also teleological? A perspective from “we-the-underdeveloped.” In Yansane, A. (Ed.), Prospects for recovery and sustainable development in Africa (pp. 301–16). Greenwood Press.
Wynter, S. (1994) No Humans Involved: An Open Letter to My Colleagues. Forum NHI: Knowledge for the 21st Century 1, (1): 42-71.
Wynter, S. (1992). Beyond the categories of the master conception: The counterdoctrine of the Jamesian Poiesis. In Henry, P. & Buhle, P.(Eds.), C.L.R. James’s Caribbean (pp. 63–91). Duke University Press.
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822382386-007
Wynter, S. (1992) Rethinking “Aesthetics”: Notes Towards a Deciphering Practice, In Cham, M.B (Ed). Ex-iles: Essays on Caribbean Cinema. New
Jersey: Africa World Press.
Wynter, S. (1990) Afterword: Beyond Miranda’s Meanings: Un/silencing the ‘Demonic Ground’ of Caliban’s ‘Woman’, In Davies, C. B and Savory Fido, K. (Eds) Out of the Kumbla: Caribbean
Women and Literature, edited by, 355-72. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1990
Secondary Sources
Riley Case, S. (2023). Looking to the Horizon: The Meanings of Reparations for Unbearable Crises. AJIL Unbound, 117, 49-54. doi:10.1017/aju.2023.4
Kamugisha, A. (2016). The Black Experience of New World Coloniality. Small Axe 20(1), 129-145.
https://www.muse.jhu.edu/article/610591.
McKittrick, K. (Ed.). (2015). Sylvia Wynter: On being human as praxis. Duke University Press.
Sharma, N. (2015). CHAPTER 7. Strategic Anti- Essentialism: Decolonizing Decolonization. In K. McKittrick (Ed.), Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human as Praxis (pp. 164-182). New York, USA: Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822375852-008
Walcott, R. (2015) Genres of human: Multiculturalism, cosmo-politics, and the Caribbean Basin. In K. McKittrick (Ed.), Sylvia Wynter: On being human as praxis (pp. 183–202). New York, USA: Duke University Press.
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822375852-009.
Kamugisha, A. (2016). The Black Experience of New World Coloniality. Small Axe 20(1), 129-145.
https://www.muse.jhu.edu/article/610591.
McKittrick, K. (Ed.). (2015). Sylvia Wynter: On being human as praxis. Duke University Press.
Sharma, N. (2015). CHAPTER 7. Strategic Anti- Essentialism: Decolonizing Decolonization. In K. McKittrick (Ed.), Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human as Praxis (pp. 164-182). New York, USA: Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822375852-008
Walcott, R. (2015) Genres of human: Multiculturalism, cosmo-politics, and the Caribbean Basin. In K. McKittrick (Ed.), Sylvia Wynter: On being human as praxis (pp. 183–202). New York, USA: Duke University Press.
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822375852-009.
Extra Resources
Tilley, L. (n.d.). Wynter, Sylvia. Global Social Theory. Accessed June 20, 2022.
https://globalsocialtheory.org/thinkers/wynter-sylvia/.
Scott, D (2000) The Re-Enchantment of Humanism: An Interview with Sylvia Wynter, Small Axe, 119-207.
https://globalsocialtheory.org/thinkers/wynter-sylvia/.
Scott, D (2000) The Re-Enchantment of Humanism: An Interview with Sylvia Wynter, Small Axe, 119-207.
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Citation
“Sylvia Wynter,” Decoloniality, First Nations Thinkers and thought and practices from the Global South, accessed August 7, 2024, https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/decoloniality-and-thinkers-from-the-global-south/items/show/223.