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Third World Girl: Selected Poems
Jean Binta Breeze
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Description for Third World Girl: Selected Poems
Paperback. This book brings together new poems with poetry and reggae chants from four previous collections. Many of the poems are included on an accompanying DVD featuring two Jean 'Binta' Breeze performances filmed by Pamela Robertson-Pearce. Illustrator(s): Robertson-Pearce, Pamela. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 390. 192pp
Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze was a popular Jamaican Dub poet and storyteller whose performances were so powerful she was 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 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. Introduced by renowned critic Colin MacCabe, the book brings together new poems with poetry and reggae ... Read more
Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze was a popular Jamaican Dub poet and storyteller whose performances were so powerful she was 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 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. Introduced by renowned critic Colin MacCabe, the book brings together new poems with poetry and reggae ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
1st Edition
Yes
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781852249106
SKU
9781852249106
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Ref
99-1
About Jean Binta Breeze
Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze (1956-2021) was an internationally-renowned poet. Born in Hanover, Jamaica, she first visited London in 1985 to take part in the International Book Fair of Radical and Third World Books, and she continued to write, perform and teach until a collapsed lung resulted in early retirement to Jamaica. She published eight books of poetry and stories. Answers (Jamaica, ... Read more
Reviews for Third World Girl: Selected Poems
Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze… emerged in the 1980s as the first female dub poet, fusing reggae rhythms and music with the spoken word… Through the use of a variety of women’s voices and contexts, Breeze’s work challenged the usual stances of the dub and performance poetry tradition. Whether on stage, record or page, she spoke for – and to – black ... Read more