Three lectures on Sylvia Wynter

The Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research will host Anthony Bogues (Brown University) to deliver three lectures on Slyvia Wynte

Each of which will explore a facet of the critical thought of this Caribbean theorist.

The lectures will map how the anti-colonial movements for political independence as well as the writings of Aimé Césaire, Frantz Fanon and Jean Price Mars became foundational in her thinking about issues of decolonizing history, cultural practice and literary theory.

They will also explore her current attempts to posit a theory of the human species and the necessity for human emancipation.

Working from the premise that the praxis of radical anti-colonial thought formulated a distinctive set of philosophical, literary, social and political questions, Bogues will speak to three themes: Plantation, Plot, Decolonization; Black Metamorphosis and the Creation of ‘the Native’and ‘The Human as Praxis’. Readings are available on request.

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