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Sylvia Wynter

Jamaican writer · Jamaica · On the map · Writers · Born 1928 · age 98

Sylvia Wynter 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".

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Black studies, economics, history, neuroscience, psychoanalysis, literary analysis, film analysis, and philosophy are some of the fields she draws on in her scholarly work.

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Jamaica
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Born 1928 · age 98

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