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Sylvia Wynter

SYLVIA WYNTER  (1928 - )

Nationality:    Jamaica
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Sylvia Wynter OJ was born in Cuba in 1928. At age two her parents returned to Jamaica where she received her primary and secondary education. In 1946 she was awarded the Jamaica Centenary Scholarship for Girls, which took her to Kings College London to read Modern European Languages. She was a member of The Boscoe Holder Dance company between 1957-58. In 1962 the year of Jamaica's Independence her only novel, Melling of Hebron was published. Her plays include Maskarade, Under the Sun (written for the Royal Court Theatre, England), and in 1970 Rockstone Anancy, a Jamaican Pantomime. Among many other publications are a biography of Sir Alexander Bustamante, the first prime minister of independent Jamaica, Ballad for a Rebellion, and We Must Learn to Sit Down Together and 'talk About a Little Culture: Reflections on West Indian Writing and Criticism. In 1963 Wynter was appointed assistant lecturer in Hispanic literature at the Mona campus of the University of the West Indies. In 1974 she joined the Department of Literature at the University of California San Diego as a visiting professor. She became chairperson of African and Afro-American Studies, and professor of Spanish in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Stanford University in 1977.1997, where she is now Professor Emeritus.

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1865 Ballad for a Revolution         Maskarade         Miracle in Lime Lane         Rockstone Anancy         Shh... It's a Wedding         Under The Sun



1865 Ballad for a Revolution

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Maskarade

Sylvia Wynter
The play is an example of works conceived with a Jamaican audience in mind, a Jamaican audience conscious of the melting pot in which it lived. It offers a unique perspective on the spirit of a people who held on to traditional beliefs and customs in the face of colonial opprobrium as the populace struggled to gain its political, social and cultural independence.

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Alaskarade was initially commissioned in 1973 by the Jamaican Information Service for broadcast on television when it was directed by Jim Nelson who subsequently collaborated with the playwright in the expansion of the play which was performed in Cuba in 1979. However this text was rewritten for the production directed by Sandra Richards with musical direction by Michael Britt And choreography by Haien Osumare, At the Nitery, Stanford University Campus in April 1983. In February 1992 it was presented At Northwestern University in the Josephine Louis Theatre directed by Sandra Richards And choreographed by Althea Tearner. In December 1993 it was produced by Talawa Theatre Company At the Cochrane Theatre in London when it was directed by Yvonne Brewster, designed by Ellen Cairns And choreographed by Greta Mendez.

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Cuba    1979

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in "mixed Company, Oberon Books (2012) >>>
in West Indian Plays for Schools Trinidad: Dept of Extra-Mural Studies, University of the West Indies, 1979   978-1849432160

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a"Jonkunnu" musical play

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Miracle in Lime Lane

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Rockstone Anancy

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Jamaican Pantomime

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Shh... It's a Wedding

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Under The Sun

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