Sylvia wynter biography

Jamaican writer (born 1928)

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.

Biography

Sylvia Wynter was born in Cuba to Jamaican parents,^[1] actress Lola Maude (Reid) Wynter and tailor Percival Wynter.

At the age of two, she and her brother Hector and their parents returned to their home country of Jamaica. She attended the Ebenezer primary school in Kingston and, at the age of 9, won a scholarship to attend the St Andrew High School for Girls, also in Kingston.^[3][4] In 19