We Must Learn to Sit Together and Talk about a Little Culture: Decolonizing Essays 1967-1984 - Softcover

Sylvia Wynter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1845231082 ISBN 13: 9781845231088

Publisher: Peepal Tree Press, 2022

Synopsis

The beginnings of the anti-colonial struggle in Jamaica coincided with the childhood and early adolescence of Sylvia Wynter, providing the motivation for this, the first phase of her important body of work. The essays and articles collected here go beyond making an argument against colonialism, but set out to decolonize the nature of the discourse that legitimated the imperial order. At the time of their writing, Wynter was a practicing novelist, an innovative playwright, a scholar of Spanish Caribbean history, and an incisive literary critic with a gift for the liveliest kind of polemics. This intellectual virtuosity is evident in these wide-ranging essays that include an exploration of C.L.R. James's writings on cricket, Bob Marley and the counter-cosmogony of the Rastafari, and the Spanish epoch of Jamaican history (including a pioneering examination of Bernado de Balbuena, epic poet and Abbot of Jamaica 1562-1627).

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About the Author

Sylvia Wynter is a professor emeritus of Spanish and Portuguese at Stanford University, the author of a series of critical articles published in <I>Jamaica Journal</I>, <I>New World Quarterly</I>, and <I>Savacou</I>, and an active participant in the BBC Caribbean Voices radio program. She is the author of <I>The Hills of Hebron</I>. She lives in Oakland, California.

Edition details

• Publisher: Peepal Tree Press
• Publication date: 2022
• ISBN 10: 1845231082
• ISBN 13: 9781845231088
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 600