Caribbean Reasonings – After Man, Towards the Human: Critical Essays on Sylvia Wynter
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This interdisciplinary collection offers a variety of interpretations of Sylvia Wynter’s work and seeks to cover the range of her thoughts.
By: Anthony Bogues
Description
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.
Additional information
| Weight | 1 lbs |
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| Dimensions | 9 × 6 in |
| ISBN | 978-976-637-224-8 |
| Binding | Paperback |
| Page Count | 364 |
| Publication Date | 2006 |
About the Editor
Anthony Bogues is Royce Professor of Africana Studies and Teaching Excellence and the current Chair of the Africana Studies Department, Brown University. He is also an Associate Director of the Centre for Caribbean Thought, University of the West Indies.
Contents
Preface
- Modernity and the ‘Work of History’ – Demetrius L. Eudell
- Perceiving Reality in a New Way: Rethinking the Black/White Duality of Our Time – Joyce E. King
- Otherness and the Impossible in the Wake of Wynter’s Notion of the ‘After Man’ – Clevis Headley
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- The ‘S’ Word: Sex, Empire and Black Radical Tradition – Greg Thomas
- After Man, Womens: The Third Sex or Ain’t i a Eunuch – Patricia D. Fox
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- Reading Said and Wynter on Liberation – Aaron K. Kamugisha
- Sylvia Wynter’s Hedgehogs: The Challenge for Intellectuals to Create New ‘Forms of Life’ in Pursuit of Freedom – Neil Roberts
- Notes on the Current Status of Liminal Categories and the Search for a New Humanism – Nelson Maldonado-Torres
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- Biocentrism, Neo-Ptolemaicism, and E. O. Wilson’s Consilience: A Contemporary Example of ‘Saving the Phenomenon’ of Man, in the Name of the Human – Jason L.R. Ambroise
- Is the Human a Teleological Suspension of Man? Phenomenological Exploration of Sylvia Wynter’s Fanonian and Biodicean Reflections – Lewis R. Gordon
- Wynter and the Transcendental Spaces of Carribbean Thought – Paget Henry
- Legitimizing Africa in Jamaica – Nicosia Shakes
- The Human, Knowledge and the Word: Reflecting on Sylvia Wynter – Anthony Bogues
Reviews
This collection of thought-provoking essays is a timely celebration of the exercise of the creative imagination by Sylvia Wynter, one of the Caribbean’s most robust and fertile minds…In her wide-ranging philosophical explorations and critical reflections she has taken on iconic stature.
Rex Nettleford, Vice Chancellor Emeritus, University of the West Indies
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