{"product_id":"the-fifth-figure-9781852247324","title":"The Fifth Figure","description":"\u003cp\u003e\n\tJean ‘Binta’ Breeze was a popular Jamaican Dub poet and storyteller \nwhose performances were so powerful she has been called a 'one-woman \nfestival'. \u003ci\u003eThe Fifth Figure\u003c\/i\u003e is a book-length sequence mixing \npoetry and prose which chronicles the lives of five generations of \nCaribbean and Black British women of mixed ancestry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\tPart novel, part poem, part family memoir, its structure is based on \nthe Jamaican quadrille, a hybrid version of the dance brought from \nEurope by the island’s former colonial masters. Beginning in the late \n19th century with her great-great grandmother’s first quadrille, Breeze \ntells a many-layered tale of love and betrayal, innocence and suffering,\n hardship and joy over a hundred years as each mother sees her daughter \njoin a dance that shapes her life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\t\u003ci\u003eThe Fifth Figure\u003c\/i\u003e was her sixth book, and saw Breeze breathing \nnew life into the dramatic monologue. Steeped in the history of Jamaica,\n the book develops the possibilities of narrative, voice and rhythm, \noffering an eloquent and empowering vision of Caribbean lives and \nculture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\nIn 2011 Bloodaxe published Jean 'Binta' Breeze's \u003ci\u003eThird World Girl: Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, a DVD-book selection of new and previously published work with live performances on the accompanying DVD. This does include work from \u003ci\u003eThe Fifth Figure\u003c\/i\u003e, which remains available as a separate edition, nor the later collection, \u003cem\u003eThe Verandah Poems\u003c\/em\u003e (2016).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jean 'Binta' Breeze","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48280121770235,"sku":"9781852247324","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781852247324.jpg?v=1772487762","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/the-fifth-figure-9781852247324","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}