{"id":25577,"date":"2012-09-24T20:49:49","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T20:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=25577"},"modified":"2016-06-16T03:02:01","modified_gmt":"2016-06-16T03:02:01","slug":"the-fifth-figure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=25577","title":{"rendered":"The Fifth Figure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodaxebooks.com\/ecs\/product\/the-fifth-figure-834\" target=\"_blank\">The Fifth Figure<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodaxebooks.com\" target=\"_blank\">Bloodaxe Books<\/a><br \/>\n2006-09-28<br \/>\n80 pages<br \/>\nPaperback ISBN-10: 1852247320; ISBN-13: 978-1852247324<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jean_%22Binta%22_Breeze\" target=\"_blank\">Jean \u2018Binta\u2019 Breeze<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodaxebooks.com\/ecs\/product\/the-fifth-figure-834\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bloodaxebooks.com\/content\/products\/2015-06\/l\/5591b6bbc19df.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jean \u2018Binta\u2019 Breeze is a popular Jamaican <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dub_poetry\" target=\"_blank\">Dub poet<\/a> and storyteller whose performances are so powerful she has been called a &#8216;one-woman festival&#8217;. <strong><em>The Fifth Figure<\/em> is a book-length sequence mixing poetry and prose which chronicles the lives of five generations of Caribbean and Black British women of mixed ancestry.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Part novel, part poem, part family memoir, its structure is based on the Jamaican <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quadrille\" target=\"_blank\">quadrille<\/a>, a hybrid version of the dance brought from Europe by the island\u2019s former colonial masters. Beginning in the late 19th century with her great-great grandmother\u2019s first quadrille, Breeze tells a many-layered tale of love and betrayal, innocence and suffering, hardship and joy over a hundred years as each mother sees her daughter join a dance that shapes her life.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Fifth Figure<\/em> is her fifth book, and sees Breeze breathing new life into the dramatic monologue. Steeped in the history of Jamaica, the book develops the possibilities of narrative, voice and rhythm, offering an eloquent and empowering vision of Caribbean lives and culture.<\/p>\n<p>In 2011 Bloodaxe published Jean &#8216;Binta&#8217; Breeze&#8217;s <em>Third World Blues: Selected Poem<\/em>s, a DVD-book selection of new and previously published work with live performances on the accompanying DVD. This does include work from <em>The Fifth Figure<\/em>, which remains available as a separate edition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fifth Figure Bloodaxe Books 2006-09-28 80 pages Paperback ISBN-10: 1852247320; ISBN-13: 978-1852247324 Jean \u2018Binta\u2019 Breeze Jean \u2018Binta\u2019 Breeze is a popular Jamaican Dub poet and storyteller whose performances are so powerful she has been called a &#8216;one-woman festival&#8217;. 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