Sylvia Wynter and the Genres of the Human

Sylvia Wynter is considered to be one of the world’s leading critical theorist . Wynter is a theorist of the black human experience , her plays, cinematic and theatre work ; to her numerous essays on history and culture, her novel Hills of Hebron , to her activities with the Institute of the Black World in the 1970’s and then to her contemporary writings which seeks to rewrite the history of the human particularly since the 15th century Columbian encounter, make this clear . This class will review her work in theatre and cinema , her writings in Jamaica Journal as well as some of her unpublished manuscripts and other well known works. It will pay attention to the intellectual , social and political influences on Wynter while posing the question about her as a radical black critical theorist .