Sylvia Wynter

Author : Katherine McKittrick
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822375852

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Sylvia Wynter by Katherine McKittrick Pdf

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.

Author : Sylvia Wynter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Jamaica
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173022985727

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The Hills of Hebron by Sylvia Wynter Pdf

Author : Aaron Kamugisha
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780253036278

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Beyond Coloniality by Aaron Kamugisha Pdf

Against the lethargy and despair of the contemporary Anglophone Caribbean experience, Aaron Kamugisha gives a powerful argument for advancing Caribbean radical thought as an answer to the conundrums of the present. Beyond Coloniality is an extended meditation on Caribbean thought and freedom at the beginning of the 21st century and a profound rejection of the postindependence social and political organization of the Anglophone Caribbean and its contentment with neocolonial arrangements of power. Kamugisha provides a dazzling reading of two towering figures of the Caribbean intellectual tradition, C. L. R. James and Sylvia Wynter, and their quest for human freedom beyond coloniality. Ultimately, he urges the Caribbean to recall and reconsider the radicalism of its most distinguished 20th-century thinkers in order to imagine a future beyond neocolonialism.

Author : Jack Halberstam
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478012627

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Wild Things by Jack Halberstam Pdf

In Wild Things Jack Halberstam offers an alternative history of sexuality by tracing the ways in which wildness has been associated with queerness and queer bodies throughout the twentieth century. Halberstam theorizes the wild as an unbounded and unpredictable space that offers sources of opposition to modernity's orderly impulses. Wildness illuminates the normative taxonomies of sexuality against which radical queer practice and politics operate. Throughout, Halberstam engages with a wide variety of texts, practices, and cultural imaginaries—from zombies, falconry, and M. NourbeSe Philip's Zong! to Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are and the career of Irish anticolonial revolutionary Roger Casement—to demonstrate how wildness provides the means to know and to be in ways that transgress Euro-American notions of the modern liberal subject. With Wild Things, Halberstam opens new possibilities for queer theory and for wild thinking more broadly.

Author : Kelly Baker Josephs
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813935072

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Disturbers of the Peace by Kelly Baker Josephs Pdf

Exploring the prevalence of madness in Caribbean texts written in English in the mid-twentieth century, Kelly Baker Josephs focuses on celebrated writers such as Jean Rhys, V. S. Naipaul, and Derek Walcott as well as on understudied writers such as Sylvia Wynter and Erna Brodber. Because mad figures appear frequently in Caribbean literature from French, Spanish, and English traditions—in roles ranging from bit parts to first-person narrators—the author regards madness as a part of the West Indian literary aesthetic. The relatively condensed decolonization of the anglophone islands during the 1960s and 1970s, she argues, makes literature written in English during this time especially rich for an examination of the function of madness in literary critiques of colonialism and in the Caribbean project of nation-making. In drawing connections between madness and literature, gender, and religion, this book speaks not only to the field of Caribbean studies but also to colonial and postcolonial literature in general. The volume closes with a study of twenty-first-century literature of the Caribbean diaspora, demonstrating that Caribbean writers still turn to representations of madness to depict their changing worlds.

Author : Anthony Bogues
Publisher : Ian Randle Publishers
Page : 1 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9789766372248

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After Man, Towards the Human by Anthony Bogues Pdf

"Sylvia Wynter's work is distinctively Caribbean. From her exciting and rigorous interventions on 'folk culture' and its profound meaning for the symbolic universe of Caribbean reality, creative writing and the nature of Caribbean culture, to her present genealogical critique of Western humanism, Wynter has emerged as one of the region's premier cultural and social theorists. This interdisciplinary collection offers a variety of interpretations of Sylvia Wynter's work and seeks to cover the range of her thought. Her rich source of investigation of some of the compelling questions that currently face humanity makes her not just a major Caribbean figure, but a world-class intellectual. In its explorations of culture, literary theory and philosophy, this volume significantly expands the field of Caribbean intellectual history and will be useful for courses in Cultural Studies; Caribbean Studies; African-American Studies; Intellectual History and Critical Theory. "

Author : Joseph Drexler-Dreis,Kristien Justaert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0823285863

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Beyond the Doctrine of Man by Joseph Drexler-Dreis,Kristien Justaert Pdf

The essays in this volume interrogate the problem of modern/colonial definitions of the human person and take up the struggle to decolonize such descriptions. Contributions engage work from various fields, including ethnic studies, religious studies, theology, queer theory, philosophy, and literary studies.

Author : Yountae An,Eleanor Craig
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781478021339

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Beyond Man by Yountae An,Eleanor Craig Pdf

Beyond Man reimagines the meaning and potential of a philosophy of religion that better attends to the inextricable links among religion, racism, and colonialism. An Yountae, Eleanor Craig, and the contributors reckon with the colonial and racial implications of the field's history by staging a conversation with Black, Indigenous, and decolonial studies. In their introduction, An and Craig point out that European-descended Christianity has historically defined itself by its relation to the other while paradoxically claiming to represent and speak to humanity in its totality. The topics include secularism, the Eucharist's relation to Blackness, and sixteenth-century Brazilian cannibalism rituals as well as an analysis of how Mircea Eliade's conception of the sacred underwrites settler colonial projects and imaginaries. Throughout, the contributors also highlight the theorizing of Afro-Caribbean thinkers such as Sylvia Wynter, C. L. R. James, Frantz Fanon, and Aimé Césaire whose work disrupts the normative Western categories of religion and philosophy. Contributors. An Yountae, Ellen Armour, J. Kameron Carter, Eleanor Craig, Amy Hollywood, Vincent Lloyd, Filipe Maia, Mayra Rivera, Devin Singh, Joseph R. Winters

Author : Kelley Armstrong
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-02-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307358769

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No Humans Involved by Kelley Armstrong Pdf

Readers around the world have fallen for Kelley Armstrong’s intoxicating, sensual and wicked tales of the paranormal, in which demons and witches, werewolves and vampires collide – often hilariously, sometimes violently – with everyday life. In Armstrong’s first six novels, Elena, Paige and Eve have had their way with us. Now get ready for Jaime Vegas, the luscious, lovelorn and haunted necromancer. . . Jaime, who knows a thing or two about showbiz, is on a television shoot in Los Angeles when weird things start to happen. As a woman whose special talent is raising the dead, her threshold for weirdness is pretty high: she’s used to not only seeing dead people but hearing them speak to her in very emphatic terms. But for the first time in her life – as invisible hands brush her skin, unintelligible fragments of words are whispered into her ears, and beings move just at the corner of her eye–she knows what humans mean when they talk about being haunted. She is determined to get to the bottom of these manifestations, but as she sets out to solve the mystery she has no idea how scary her investigation will get, or to what depths ordinary humans will sink in their attempts to gain supernatural powers. As she digs into the dark underside of Los Angeles, she’ll need as much Otherworld help as she can get in order to survive, calling on her personal angel, Eve, and Hope, the well-meaning chaos demon. Jeremy, the alpha werewolf, is also by her side offering protection. And, Jaime hopes, maybe a little more than that. “As I knelt on the cobblestones to begin the ritual, I opened not some ancient leather pouch, but a Gucci make-up bag. . . . I know little about the geography and theology of the afterlife, but I do know that the worst spirits are kept secured, and my risk of “accidentally” tapping into a hell dimension is next to nil. Even if I do bring back some depraved killer’s spirit, what can it do to me? When you deprive someone of the ability to act in the living world, he’s pretty darned helpless. In death, even the worst killer plummets from lethal to merely annoying. Yet whatever had been trying to contact me apparently could cross that barrier, could act in the living world. . .at least on me. I added an extra helping of vervain to the censer.” —from No Humans Involved

Author : Yvonne Brewster
Publisher : Oberon Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-23
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1849432163

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Mixed Company by Yvonne Brewster Pdf

In 2012 Jamaica celebrates the 50th anniversary of Independence. Mixed Company is a collection of three of the finest early Jamaican theatrical works, written for the most part before the dawn of Independence. Written in 1954 (The Creatures by Cicely Waite-Smith), 1960 (Bedward by Louis Marriott) and 1970 (Maskarade by Sylvia Wynter), the plays are examples of works conceived with a Jamaican audience in mind, a Jamaican audience conscious of the melting pot in which it lived. Each offers a unique perspective on the spirit of a people who held on to traditional beliefs and customs in the face of colonial opprobrium as the populace struggled to gain its political, social and cultural independence. Yvonne Brewster talks to Woman's Hour about Jamaican indpendence

Author : Sylvia Wynter
Publisher : ASPIRE San Francisco
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Education
ISBN : 0935419063

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Do Not Call Us Negros by Sylvia Wynter Pdf

Library Laureate and California Sesquicentennial Commendation award winning anthology of the central role of Africans in the development of early California from its naming by the first African to visit what is now the United States in the 1500s to the allegorical black queen whose story the name was first cited in. Full of contemporary accounts from black authors and primary source documents. Perfect for university, school and museum libraries for researchers of the Spanish and Mexican eras, the abolitoin movement, the Westward expansion and the development of popular entertainment.

Author : Zimitri Erasmus
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781776141852

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Race Otherwise by Zimitri Erasmus Pdf

Three tensions to consider in the making and unmaking of race In Race Otherwise: Forging a New Humanism for South Africa Zimitri Erasmus questions the notion that one can know 'race' with one's eyes, or through racial categories and or genetic ancestry tests. She moves between the intimate probing of racial identities as we experience them individually, and analysis of the global historical forces that have created these identities and woven them into our thinking about what it means to be 'human'. Starting from her own family's journeys through regions of the world and ascribed racial identities, she develops her argument about how it is possible to recognize the pervasiveness of race thinking without submitting to its power. Drawing on the theoretical work of Frantz Fanon, Sylvia Wynter and others, Erasmus argues for a new way of 'coming to know otherwise', of seeing the boundaries between racial identities as thresholds to be crossed, through politically charged acts of imagination and love.

Author : Jason R. Ambroise,Sabine Broeck
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781781384664

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Black Knowledges/Black Struggles by Jason R. Ambroise,Sabine Broeck Pdf

Black Knowledges/Black Struggles: Essays in Critical Epistemology explores the central, but often critically neglected role of knowledge and epistemic formations within social movements for human emancipation.

Author : Jane Anna Gordon,Lewis Gordon
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781405154666

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A Companion to African-American Studies by Jane Anna Gordon,Lewis Gordon Pdf

A Companion to African-American Studies is an exciting andcomprehensive re-appraisal of the history and future of AfricanAmerican studies. Contains original essays by expert contributors in the field ofAfrican-American Studies Creates a groundbreaking re-appraisal of the history and futureof the field Includes a series of reflections from those who establishedAfrican American Studies as a bona fide academic discipline Captures the dynamic interaction of African American Studieswith other fields of inquiry.

Author : Alexander G. Weheliye
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822376491

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Habeas Viscus by Alexander G. Weheliye Pdf

Habeas Viscus focuses attention on the centrality of race to notions of the human. Alexander G. Weheliye develops a theory of "racializing assemblages," taking race as a set of sociopolitical processes that discipline humanity into full humans, not-quite-humans, and nonhumans. This disciplining, while not biological per se, frequently depends on anchoring political hierarchies in human flesh. The work of the black feminist scholars Hortense Spillers and Sylvia Wynter is vital to Weheliye's argument. Particularly significant are their contributions to the intellectual project of black studies vis-à-vis racialization and the category of the human in western modernity. Wynter and Spillers configure black studies as an endeavor to disrupt the governing conception of humanity as synonymous with white, western man. Weheliye posits black feminist theories of modern humanity as useful correctives to the "bare life and biopolitics discourse" exemplified by the works of Giorgio Agamben and Michel Foucault, which, Weheliye contends, vastly underestimate the conceptual and political significance of race in constructions of the human. Habeas Viscus reveals the pressing need to make the insights of black studies and black feminism foundational to the study of modern humanity.