Sylvia Wynter

Sylvia Wynter

O.J.
Born (1928-05-11) 11 May 1928 (age 96)
Holguín, Cuba
OccupationNovelist, playwright, critic, philosopher, and essayist
NationalityJamaican
EducationSt Andrew High School for Girls
Alma materKing's College London
Notable worksThe Hills of Hebron (1962)
PartnerJan Carew

Sylvia Wynter, O.J. (Holguín, Cuba,[1] 11 May 1928)[2] 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.

  1. ^ Balderston, Daniel; Gonzalez, Mike (2004). Encyclopedia of Latin American and Caribbean literature, 1900-2003. Routledge. p. 614. ISBN 9781849723336. OCLC 941857387.
  2. ^ Chang, Victor L. (1986). "Sylvia Winter (1928 - )". In Dance, Daryl C. (ed.). Fifty Caribbean Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 498–507. ISBN 978-0-313-23939-7.