id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_yc4b54f4bzaylcfkq2oynxekvq Birgit M. Kaiser What is Species Memory? Or, Humanism, Memory and the Afterlives of '1492' 2017 13 .pdf application/pdf 6923 559 61 and cultural theorist Sylvia Wynter places the emergence of the modern figure of Man and the possibility of its contestation is '1492'. especially of blackness – within figurations of 'Man', but also affords an outline of a new 'species-inclusive' account of humanness.2 Wynter argues that order.4 In '1492: A New World View' she points out that such binary framing of 'European'/'Native' in the Caribbean and the Americas always/already5 leaves largely unquestioned.13 Wynter takes '1492' as a key site for foundational questioning of what 'we' mean by being human. At the beginning of '1492: A New World View', Wynter phrases her project which symbolic life/death is distributed), Wynter shows how the figure of political Man1 emerged post-1492 along the code 'rational/irrational', crucially Given this historical analysis, Wynter urges us to look for a 'third perspective', a 'new world view'. Wynter turns this into her proposition that humans live in biological/cultural, ./cache/work_yc4b54f4bzaylcfkq2oynxekvq.pdf ./txt/work_yc4b54f4bzaylcfkq2oynxekvq.txt