The essays in this volume interrogate the problem of modern/colonial definitions of the human person and take up the struggle to decolonize such descriptions. Contributions engage work from various fields, including ethnic studies, religious studies, theology, queer theory, philosophy, and literary studies.

Introduction: The Projects of Unsettling ManJoseph Drexler-Dreis and Kristien Justaert | 1Part I: Sylvia Wynter and the Project of Unsettling Man1. Where Life Itself LivesMayra Rivera | 192. Unsettling Blues: A Decolonial Reading of the Blues EpistemeRufus Burnett Jr. | 363. Not Your Papa's Wynter: Women of Color Contributions toward Decolonial FuturesXhercis Méndez and Yomaira C. Figueroa | 60Part II: Religious Cosmologies and the Project of Unsettling Man4. Enfleshing Love: A Decolonial Theological Reading of BelovedM. Shawn Copeland | 915. Nat Turner's Orientation beyond the Doctrine of ManJoseph Drexler-Dreis | 1136. Mystical Bodies of Christ: Human, Crucified, and BelovedAndrew Prevot | 1347. African Humanism: Between the Cosmic and the TerrestrialPatrice Haynes | 161Part III: Biopolitics and the Project of Unsettling Man8. Bodies That SpeakLinn Marie Tonstad | 1939. Life beyond the Doctrine of Man: Out of This World with Michel Henry and Radical Queer TheoryKristien Justaert | 21710. Black Life/Schwarz-Sein: Inhabitations of the FleshAlexander G. Weheliye | 237Acknowledgments | 263Bibliography | 265List of Contributors | 289Index | 293