Jean "Binta" Breeze

Katherine Miranda (Independent Scholar - North America)

Ed. by Jak Peake, University of Essex
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 4.1.1: Anglophone Writing and Culture of Central America and the Caribbean.
Vol. editors: Ronald Cummings (McMaster University), Delphine Munos (Université de Liège), Melanie Otto (Trinity College Dublin), Jak Peake (University of Essex), Abigail Ward (University of Nottingham)

Dates

Born 1956
Activity 1977-ongoing

Places

Born in Jamaica
Active in United Kingdom

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Poet

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A self-proclaimed “Third World voice” (qtd. in Dowson), Jean “Binta” Breeze began her career as a dub poet in Jamaica in the 1970s and has continued to produce poetry on the page and for the stage ever since. Breeze’s thematic concerns are particularly attuned to women’s struggles and rural Jamaican reality. Her poetry evokes everyday life while at the same time offering sweeping historical perspectives on Caribbean history, migration and neo/colonialism, and is deeply rooted in oral traditions that are most fully expressed when her work is performed. Through keen attention to everyday trials and triumphs – most notably those of rural Black Jamaican women – Breeze crafts poetic …

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Citation: Miranda, Katherine. "Jean "Binta" Breeze". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 09 March 2017 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5838, accessed 26 April 2024.]

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