Wynter, Sylvia
About Sylvia Wynter
Biography (King’s College London)
McKittrick, Katherine. Sylvia Winters: On Being Human as Praxis, 2014
Reviews
Wilson, Nicole, et al. “Sylvia Wynter Over Tea.” Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning, vol. 25, Jan. 2019
Bane, Theodra. “Leaving Our Concepts Ajar: Re-Thinking the Human with Sylvia Wynter.” Papers on Language & Literature, vol. 55, no. 3, 2019
Ambroise, Jason R. “On Sylvia Wynter’s Darwinian Heresy of the ‘Third Event’.” American Quarterly, vol. 70, no. 4, Dec. 2018
Rodriguez, Anthony Bayani. “Introduction: On Sylvia Wynter and the Urgency of a New Humanist Revolution in the Twenty-First Century.” American Quarterly, vol. 70, no. 4, Dec. 2018
McKittrick, Katherine, et al. “Rhythm, or On Sylvia Wynter’s Science of the Word.” American Quarterly, vol. 70, no. 4, Dec. 2018
Rodriguez, Anthony Bayani. “Introduction: On Sylvia Wynter and the Urgency of a New Humanist Revolution in the Twenty-First Century.” American Quarterly, vol. 70, no. 4, Dec. 2018
Parker, Emily Anne. “The Human as Double Bind: Sylvia Wynter and the Genre of ‘Man.’” Journal of Speculative Philosophy, vol. 32, no. 3, Jul. 2018
Kamugisha, Aaron. “‘That Area of Experience That We Term the New World’: Introducing Sylvia Wynter’s Black Metamorphosis.” Small Axe, vol. 20, no. 1, Mar. 2016
Bethel-Bennett, Ian. “The Hills of Hebron.” Caribbean Quarterly, vol. 59, no. 1, Mar. 2013
Interviews
Scott, David. “The Re-Echantment of Humanism: An Interview with Sylvia Wynter.” Small Axe, Sep. 2000
Criticism
Hantel, Max. “Plasticity and Fungibility: On Sylvia Wynter’s Pieza Framework.” Social Text, vol. 38, no. 2, Jun. 2020
Adams, Jennifer D., and Matthew Weinstein. “Sylvia Wynter: Science Studies and Posthumanism as Praxis of Being Human.” Cultural Studies/Critical Methodologies, vol. 20, no. 3, Jun. 2020
Erasmus, Zimitri. “Sylvia Wynter’s Theory of the Human: Counter-, Not Post-Humanist.” Theory, Culture & Society, vol. 37, no. 6, Nov. 2020
Guilmette, Lauren. “Unsettling the Coloniality of the Affects: Transcontinental Reverberations between Teresa Brennan and Sylvia Wynter.” PhiloSophia, vol. 9, no. 1, Dec. 2019
Obst, Anthony James. “Ceremony Found: Sylvia Wynter’s Hybrid Human and Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony.” As/Peers, vol. 12, 2019
McKittrick, Katherine, et al. “Rhythm, or On Sylvia Wynter’s Science of the Word.” American Quarterly, vol. 70, no. 4, Dec. 2018
Tsantsoulas, Tiffany N. “Sylvia Wynter’s Decolonial Rejoinder to Judith Butler’s Ethics of Vulnerability.” Symposium, vol. 22, no. 2, 2018
Hantel, Max. “What Is It Like to Be a Human? Sylvia Wynter on Autopoiesis.” PhiloSophia, vol. 8, no. 1, 2018
Haynes, Tonya. “Sylvia Wynter’s Theory of the Human and the Crisis School of Caribbean Heteromasculinity Studies.” Small Axe, vol. 49, Mar. 2016
Thomas, Greg. “Marronnons/Let’s Maroon: Sylvia Wynter’s Black Metamorphosis as a Species of Maroonage.” Small Axe, vol. 49, Mar. 2016
Eudell, Demetrius L. “From Mode of Production to Mode of Auto-Institution: Sylvia Wynter’s Black Metamorphosis of the Labor Question.” Small Axe, vol. 49, Mar. 2016
Kamugisha, Aaron, and David Scott. “Sylvia Wynter’s Black Metamorphosis: A Discussion.” Small Axe, vol. 49, Mar. 2016
Bogues, Anthony. After Man, Toward the Human: Critical Essays on Sylvia Wynter, 2006
Works
Novels
The Hills of Hebron (1964)
Plays/Scripts
Maskarade: A Jonkunuu Musical Play (1973)
The House and Land of Mrs. Alba (1968)
1865 – A Ballad for a Rebellion (1965)
The Big Pride (1961)
Shh… It’s a Wedding (1961)
Miracle in Lime Lane (1959)
Essays/Articles/Non-Fiction/Short Stories
We Must Learn to Sit Together and Talk About a Little Culture: Decolonizing Essays 1967-1984 (2021)
“The Ceremony Found: Towards the Autopoetic Turn/Overturn, its Autonomy of Human Agency, and the Extraterritoriality of (Self-)Cognition." Black Knowledges/Black Struggles: Essays in Critical Episemology, Broeck (ed.), 2015
“Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom: Towards the Human, After Man, Its Overrepresentation – An Argument.” The New Centennial Review, vol. 3, no. 3, 2003
Do not Call us Negros: How “Multicultural” Textbooks Perpetuate Racism (1992)
New Seville, Major Facts, Major Questions (1984)
“The Ceremony Must Be Found: After Humanism.” Boundary II, vol. 13, 1984
Black Metamorphosis: New Natives in the New World (1982)
Jamaica’s National Heroes (1971)
Films
Wri. Drama ’61: The Big Pride (1961)
Audio and Audiovisual Material
Prof. Emerita Sylvia Wynter - IOJ Induction of Fellows Audio Response. YouTube, 21 Nov. 2012