Sylvia Wynter: Being Human (ENGLISH 248, ENGLISH 348)

This graduate seminar examines the field-defining scholarship and fiction of creative and cultural critic, Sylvia Wynter, a former director of Africa & African American Studies at Stanford, Wynter's influential essays on literature, on social justice, on the place of technology, and on the nature of humanity all have special relevance for contemporary debates about the relation of the critic to the world.