Sylvia Wynter

7.5k citations
9 papers · 2.0k indexed · 1 hit paper · h-index 7
Topics
Theater, Performance, and Music History (1 paper)Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (1 paper)Caribbean and African Literature and Culture (1 paper)

In The Last Decade

Sylvia Wynter

8 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom: ...2003202620102018200350010001.5k

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Sylvia Wynter
Comparison fields: 5 of 100
  • Sociology and Political Science 1.1k
  • Cultural Studies 533
  • Education 336
  • Literature and Literary Theory 287
  • Geography, Planning and Development 276
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All Works

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Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom: Towards the Human, After Man, Its Overrepresentation--An Argumentbreakdown →
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"Genital Mutilation" or "Symbolic Birth?" Female Circumcision, Lost Origins, and the Aculturalism of Feminist/Western Thought
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About Sylvia Wynter

Sylvia Wynter is a scholar working on Music, Anthropology and Religious studies, having authored 9 papers that have together received 2.0k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this 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). The work is most often cited by research in Cultural Studies (533 citations), Geography, Planning and Development (276 citations) and Anthropology (252 citations). Frequent co-authors include Jarvis R. Givens and Joshua Bennett. Their work appears in journals such as Social Text, World Literature Today and Cultural Critique.

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