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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 re-historicize humanness as praxis.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social groups

• Full title: Sylvia Wynter
• Author: Katherine McKittrick
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304
• EAN: 9780822358343
• ISBN: 0822358344
• ID: 04731650
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Weight: 466 g
• Dimensions: 155 × 229 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 07. January 2015

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