On Being Human as Praxis
ed. by Katherine McKittrick ; contr. by Walter D. Mignolo, Denise Ferreira da Silva, Nandita Sharma...[et al.]
- Author(s)
- Walter D. Mignolo, Denise Ferreira da Silva, Nandita Sharma, ...[et al.]
- Editor(s)
- Katherine McKittrick
- Publication
- Durham ; London : Duke University, 2015
- Scope
- 298 Pages, 23 cm.
- ISBN
- 9780822358343
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.
- Keywords
- decolonisation
- Location
- Cabinet 29 - 6: Expanded Space ; Global Art ; Theorie
- Remarks
- Incl. notes, Index, Bibliography
