Sylvia Wynter

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Sylvia Wynter (born 1928 in Cuba) is a Caribbbean novelist, dramatist and essayist.

Wynter's parents were Jamaican, and she returned to Jamaica as a child to be educated there. She obtained a BA from the University of London (1947-49) and a MA in 1953. She has written and produced radio/television plays for the BBC. She has held posts at the University of the West Indies, the University of Michigan,University of California, and Stanford University.

[edit] Works

Novel

• The Hills of Hebron (1966)

Drama

• Shh... It's a Wedding (1961)
• Miracle in Lime Lane (1962)
• 1865 Ballad for a Revolution (1965)
• Maskarade (1979)

Essays/criticism

• in Jamaica Journal 2 (1968)
• in New World Quarterly' 5 (1975)

[edit] Sources

• Bloomsbury Guide to Women's Literature

[edit] Further Reading

• E. K. Brathwaite 'The Love Axe/1; Developing a Caribbean Aesthetic', BIM, 16 July 1977
• Daryl Cumberdance (ed. 1986) Fifty Caribbean Writers: a bio-bibliographical critical sourcebook.