Madam St. Clair, Queen of Harlem - Softcover

Confiant, Raphaël

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1944884564 ISBN 13: 9781944884567

Publisher: Diálogos, 2019

Synopsis

Madam St. Clair, Queen of Harlem

is the story of a real-life woman’s rise from the slums of Martinique to the heights of Sugar Hill during the Harlem Renaissance. In the years following her arrival on Ellis Island with little more than a razor and a slim roll of bank notes, St. Clair would become queen of the numbers game, facing off against both the black underworld and the white mafia. Traversing the era from the First World War, Prohibition, the Great Depression, the Second World War and the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement, she became an iconic figure of the Harlem Renaissance, as a ruthless lady gangster but also as consort and benefactor to such heroes of the movement as W.E.B. Du Bois, Countee Cullen, and Langston Hughes.

About this title

About the Author

Raphaël Confiant has been at the forefront of the Créolité movement in his native Martinique and beyond since the 1980s. He is the author of numerous books in both French and Martinican Creole, including Éloge de la créolité and Eau de café, which won the Prix Novembre in 1991. Confiant currently serves as the dean of humanities and literature at the University of the French West Indies, Martinique. A prolific writer, Confiant's work has been translated into several languages, including Italian, Spanish, German and Greek, however only two of his novels are thus far available in English.

Edition details

• Publisher: Diálogos
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1944884564
• ISBN 13: 9781944884567
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 262