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The Fifth Figure

Jean 'Binta' Breeze

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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'. The Fifth Figure is a book-length sequence chronicling the lives of five generations of Caribbean and Black British women of mixed ancestry. Part novel, part poem, part family memoir, its structure is based on the Jamaican quadrille, a hybrid version of the European dance. Beginning in the late 19th century with her great-great grandmother's 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 which shapes her life.

Language: English

Pages: 80

Format: Paperback

Release: March 15, 2007

ISBN 13: 9781852247324

The Fifth Figure

Jean 'Binta' Breeze

0/5 ( ratings)

Jean 'Binta' Breeze is a popular Jamaican Dub poet and storyteller whose performances are so powerful she has been called a 'one-woman festival'. The Fifth Figure is a book-length sequence chronicling the lives of five generations of Caribbean and Black British women of mixed ancestry. Part novel, part poem, part family memoir, its structure is based on the Jamaican quadrille, a hybrid version of the European dance. Beginning in the late 19th century with her great-great grandmother's 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 which shapes her life.

Language: English

Pages: 80

Format: Paperback

Release: March 15, 2007

ISBN 13: 9781852247324

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