The Honourable Sylvia Wynter, O.J. (HolguÃn, Cuba, 11 May 1928) is a
Jamaican novelist, dramatist, critic, philosopher, and essayist. 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.Sylvia Wynter was born in Cuba to Jamaican parents, actress Lola
Maude (Reid) Wynter and tailor Percival Wynter. At the age of two she
returned to her home country, Jamaica, with her parents (both born
there) and was educated at the St Andrew High School for Girls. In
1946, she was awarded the Jamaica Centenary Scholarship for Girls,
which took her to King's College London, to read for her B.A. in
modern languages (Spanish) from 1947 to 1951. She was awarded the M.A.
in December 1953 for her thesis, a critical edition of a Spanish
comedia, A lo que obliga el honor.
Jamaican novelist, dramatist, critic, philosopher, and essayist. 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.Sylvia Wynter was born in Cuba to Jamaican parents, actress Lola
Maude (Reid) Wynter and tailor Percival Wynter. At the age of two she
returned to her home country, Jamaica, with her parents (both born
there) and was educated at the St Andrew High School for Girls. In
1946, she was awarded the Jamaica Centenary Scholarship for Girls,
which took her to King's College London, to read for her B.A. in
modern languages (Spanish) from 1947 to 1951. She was awarded the M.A.
in December 1953 for her thesis, a critical edition of a Spanish
comedia, A lo que obliga el honor.
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