Sylvia Wynter (eBook, PDF)

On Being Human as Praxis
Redaktion: Katherine McKittrick, McKittrick

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Produktbeschreibung

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 rehistoricize humanness as praxis.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822375852
• Artikelnr.: 54671036

Autorenporträt

Katherine McKittrick is Associate Professor of Gender Studies at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. She is the author of Demonic Grounds: Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
1. Yours in the Intellectual Struggle: Sylvia Wynter and the Realization of
the Living / Katherine McKittrick 1
2. Unparalleled Catastrophe for Our Species? Or, to Give Humanness a
Different Future: Conversations / Sylvia Wynter and Katherine McKittrick 9
3. Before Man: Sylvia Wynter's Rewriting of the Modern Episteme / Denise
Ferreira da Silva 90
4. Sylvia Wynter: What Does It Mean to Be Human? / Walter D. Mignolo 106
5. Still Submerged: The Uninhabitability of Urban Redevelopment / Bench
Ansfield 124
6. Axis, Bold as Love: On Sylvia Wynter, Jimi Hendrix, and the Promise of
Science / Katherine McKittrick 142
7. Strategic Anti-Essentialism: Decolonizing Decolinization / Nandita
Sharma 164
8. Genres of Human: Multiculturalism, Cosmo-politics, and the Caribbean
Basin / Rinaldo Walcott 183
9. From Masquerade to Maskarade: Caribbean Cultural Resistance and the
Rehumanizing Project / Carole Boyce Davies 203
10. "Come on Kid, Let's Go Get the Thing": The Sociogenic Principle and the
Being of Being Black / Demetrius L. Eudell 226
Bibliography 249
Contributors 275
Index 277