Five days of bleeding
Subtitle: a novel
By: by Ricardo Cortez Cruz.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: [Fiction Collective Two]
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Normal [Colo.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
Subjects: Homeless women -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction; African Americans -- Fiction; Central Park (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Five Days of Bleeding is the black experience in sound, a fight to dance and celebrate cultural roots, and the struggle of a dark homeless woman, Zu-Zu Girl, to have voice in White America.

Taunted by the violent character "Chops," Zu-Zu sings to keep her spirit alive in New York City's Central Park. Zu-Zu and the novel's narrator have a relationship which is transformed into a stormy, dreamlike urban affair. Their oppressive situation is depicted through multiple collages of sound and image, a funky mix of original and sampled cuts, both literary and musical.

The social chaos around them is remixed in a text consisting of street beats, classic breaks, and fresh-cool cadences. Bleeding proves that the loudest noises of moral panic can be gunshots, to be sure, but they can also be the very human sound of the music of hope and despair.