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\"\"Madam St. Clair, Queen of Harlem<\/i><\/a> is the story of a real-life woman\u2019s rise from the slums of Martinique to the heights of Sugar Hill during the Harlem Renaissance. This remarkable story has been told before (for example in the 1997 film Hoodlum<\/em>, in which\u00a0Cicely Tyson\u00a0plays Madam St. Clair). What is unique about Rapha\u00ebl Confiant<\/a>‘s contemporary telling is his focus on her early life in his native Martinique, as well as the complications that arose from her being a French-speaking black in Harlem. Confiant has devoted a long career (more than 40 books) to explorations of Martinican and Francophone diasporic culture. Many of his early works were written in Creole, though most of his later work, including Madame St. Clair, in French. Our edition is beautifully translated by Patricia Hartland<\/a> and Hodna Bentali Gharsallah Nuernberg.<\/a><\/p>\n

For a limited time this summer we are offering $10 off on this title and other of our newer releases. You can view all of them here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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