Sylvia Wynter
Sylvia Wynter | |
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| Born | 11 May 1928 Holguín, Cuba |
| Occupation | Novelist, playwright, critic, philosopher, and essayist |
| Nationality | Jamaican |
| Education | St Andrew High School for Girls |
| Alma mater | King's College London |
| Notable works | The Hills of Hebron (1962) |
| Partner | Jan Carew |
Sylvia Wynter, O.J. (Holguín, Cuba, 11 May 1928) is a Jamaican novelist,[1] dramatist,[2] critic, philosopher, and essayist.[3] Her work combines insights from the natural sciences, the humanities, art, and anti-colonial struggles in order to unsettle what she refers to as the "overrepresentation of Man". Black studies, economics, history, neuroscience, psychoanalysis, literary analysis, film analysis, and philosophy are some of the fields she draws on in her scholarly work.