Jean Binta Breeze (1956–2021)
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Jean 'Binta' Breeze is a popular Jamaican Dub poet and storyteller whose performances are so powerful she has been called a 'one-woman festival'. Her poems are Caribbean songs of innocence and experience, of love and conflict. They use personal stories and historical narratives to explore social mostrar más injustice and the psychological dimensions of black women's experience. Striking evocations of childhood in the hills of Jamaica give way to explorations of the perils and delights of growth and change - through sex, emigration, motherhood and age. mostrar menos
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Obras de Jean Binta Breeze
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Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Words and Writings by Women of African Descent from the Ancient… (1992) — Contribuidor — 159 copias
The Oxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories: Reissue (Oxford Books of Prose) (1999) — Contribuidor — 93 copias
So Much Things to Say: 100 Poets from the First Ten Years of the Calabash International Literary Festival (2010) — Contribuidor — 24 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1956
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 2021-08-04
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- Jamaica
- Lugares de residencia
- Leicester, Leicestershire, England, UK
- Educación
- School of Drama, Jamaica
- Ocupaciones
- poet (dub)
artist
theatre director
choreographer
actor
teacher
Miembros
Reseñas
On the Edge of an Island por Jean Breeze
Breeze's rhythms and artful use of dialect make this a relaxing and fascinating read. It often feels like you're reading lyrics as opposed to more traditionally depicted poetry, and the mix (fairly even) of short stories and poetry give an intimate glimpse into caribbean life and personalities. I don't usually enjoy poems written in dialect, but Breeze's touch is pitch perfect, and the rhythms of the dialect itself make this is a work of art worth returning to.
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 7
- También por
- 8
- Miembros
- 51
- Popularidad
- #311,767
- Valoración
- 3.7
- Reseñas
- 1
- ISBNs
- 8