Sylvia Wynter

7.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
9 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Sylvia Wynter is a scholar working on Anthropology, Music and Literature and Literary Theory. According to data from OpenAlex, Sylvia Wynter has authored 9 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 3 papers in Anthropology, 1 paper in Music and 1 paper in Literature and Literary Theory. Recurrent topics in Sylvia Wynter's work include Theater, Performance, and Music History (1 paper), Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (1 paper) and Caribbean and African Literature and Culture (1 paper). Sylvia Wynter is often cited by papers focused on Theater, Performance, and Music History (1 paper), Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (1 paper) and Caribbean and African Literature and Culture (1 paper). Sylvia Wynter collaborates with scholars based in . Sylvia Wynter's co-authors include Jarvis R. Givens and Joshua Bennett and has published in prestigious journals such as Social Text, World Literature Today and Cultural Critique.

In The Last Decade

Sylvia Wynter

8 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom: Towards the Human, After Man, Its Overrepresentation--An Argument

2003 1.7k citations Sylvia Wynter CR The New Centennial Review profile →

Peers

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Avery F. Gordon United States

Saidiya Hartman United States

Christina Sharpe Kenya

Fred Moten United States

Aldon Lynn Nielsen United States

Hortense J. Spillers United States

Brinda Bose India

Ann Cvetkovich United States

Gareth Griffiths United States

Frederick Errington United States

Avery F. Gordon United States

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323 ×0.6

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162 ×0.5

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205 ×0.7

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212 ×0.8

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Countries citing papers authored by Sylvia Wynter

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sylvia Wynter

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sylvia Wynter

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Sylvia Wynter. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Sylvia Wynter based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Sylvia Wynter. Sylvia Wynter is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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9 of 9 papers shown

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Wynter, Sylvia, Joshua Bennett, & Jarvis R. Givens. (2020). “A Greater Truth than Any Other Truth You Know”: A Conversation with Professor Sylvia Wynter on Origin Stories. Souls. 22(1). 123–137. 3 indexed citations

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Wynter, Sylvia. (2018). Beyond Liberal and Marxist Leninist Feminisms. 24(1). 31–56. 8 indexed citations

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Wynter, Sylvia. (2003). Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom: Towards the Human, After Man, Its Overrepresentation--An Argument. CR The New Centennial Review. 3(3). 257–337. 1699 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wynter, Sylvia. (1997). "Genital Mutilation" or "Symbolic Birth?" Female Circumcision, Lost Origins, and the Aculturalism of Feminist/Western Thought. Case Western Reserve law review. 47(2). 501. 17 indexed citations

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Wynter, Sylvia. (1991). Tras el "Hombre", su última Palabra: Sobre el posmodernismo, les damnes y el principio sociogénico. Nuevo texto crítico. 4(7). 43–83. 2 indexed citations

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Wynter, Sylvia. (1989). Beyond the Word of Man: Glissant and the New Discourse of the Antilles. World Literature Today. 63(4). 637–637. 82 indexed citations

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Wynter, Sylvia. (1987). On Disenchanting Discourse: "Minority" Literary Criticism and beyond. Cultural Critique. 207–207. 46 indexed citations

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Wynter, Sylvia. (1984). The Ceremony Must be Found: After Humanism. boundary 2. 12(3). 19–19. 125 indexed citations

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Wynter, Sylvia. (1979). Sambos and Minstrels. Social Text. 149–149. 28 indexed citations

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