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Sylvia Wynter : on being human as praxis / Katherine McKittrick, ed.

Summary:

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 Aimé Césaire, 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.

Record details

ISBN: 9780822358206
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Physical Description: xiii, 290 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2015.
Copyright: ©2015

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-273) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Yours in the intellectual struggle : Sylvia Wynter and the realization of the living / Katherine McKittrick -- Unparalleled catastrophe for our species? Or, to give humanness a different future : conversations / Sylvia Wynter and Katherine McKittrick -- Before man : Sylvia Wynter's rewriting of the modern episteme / Denise Ferreira da Silva -- Sylvia Wynter : what does it mean to be human? / Walter D. Mignolo -- Still submerged : the uninhabitability of urban redevelopment / Bench Ansfield -- Axis, bold as love : on Sylvia Wynter, Jimi Hendrix, and the promise of science / Katherine McKittrick -- Strategic anti-essentialism : decolonizing decolonization / Nandita Sharma -- Genres of human : multiculturalism, cosmo-politics, and the Caribbean Basin / Rinaldo Walcott -- From masquerade to Maskarade : Caribbean cultural resistance and the rehumanizing project / Carole Boyce Davies -- "Come on kid, let's go get the Thing" : the sociogenic principle and the Being of being Black/human / Demetrius L. Eudell.