Sylvia Wynter

Sylvia Wynter was born on 11 May 1928 in Holguín, in Cuba, to Jamaican parents, a tailor and an actress, and returned with them to Jamaica at the age of two. A scholarship student, she studied Spanish at King's College London up to a master's degree, in 1953, and wrote radio plays for the BBC. Back in Jamaica in 1962, she taught at the University of the West Indies, then in the United States, at San Diego and at Stanford, where she directed African and Afro-American studies. Her critical work examines the way the West has defined the human.

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• NovelThe Hills of HebronSylvia Wynter · 1962Literature