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Sylvia Wynter, the Human, and Curriculum Studies book cover

1st Edition

Sylvia Wynter, the Human, and Curriculum Studies

Edited By Nathan Snaza, Aparna Mishra Tarc Copyright 2027
162 Pages
by Routledge

The work of Jamaican theorist Sylvia Wynter has become central to conversations across the humanities and social sciences, where her attention to historically shifting understandings of the human has become enormously influential in Black studies, gender studies, posthumanism, and conversations about decolonization. At the core of her account of the human are two claims with far-reaching... Read more

Preface

Nathan Snaza and Aparna Mishra Tarc

 

Introduction: “To wake up our minds”: The re-enchantment of praxis in Sylvia Wynter

Nathan Snaza and Aparna Mishra Tarc

 

1. Rewriting/recurricularlizing as a matter of life and death: The coloniality of academic writing and the challenge of black mattering therein

Denise Taliaferro Baszile

 

2. Neocolonial mind snatching: Sylvia wynter and the curriculum of Man

Ebony Rose

 

3. “I had never been at home in the world”1: A case for Black-Indigenism

Kelly Limes-Taylor Henderson

 

4. Towards the human, after the child of Man: Seeing the child differently in teacher education

Maria Kromidas

 

5. Imagining institutions of man: Constructions of the human in the foundations of Ontario public schooling curriculum

Hunter Knight

 

6. Inhuman literacies and affective refusals: Thinking with Sylvia Wynter and secondary school English

Sarah E. Truman

 

7. Curriculum against the state: Sylvia Wynter, the human, and futures of curriculum studies

Nathan Snaza

 

Afterword

Sandy Grande

 

Index

 

Biography

Nathan Snaza is associate professor of English and Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Richmond, USA. He is the author of Animate Literacies: Literature, Affect, and the Politics of Humanism and Tendings: Feminist Esoterisms and the Abolition of Man.

Aparna Mishra Tarc is associate professor of Culture, Language and Teaching at the Faculty of Education, York University, Canada. She is the author of Literacy of the other: Renarrating Humanity and Pedagogy in the Novels of J.M. Coetzee.

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