Queenie, the godmother of Harlem
Cover of the comic strip "Queenie, the godmother of Harlem" by Elisabeth Colomba and Amélie Levy © éditions Anne Carrière
By: Jean-François Cadet Follow
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Elizabeth Colomba and Aurélie Lévy tell the life of Stéphanie St-Clair in a graphic novel.
The one who was nicknamed "Queenie", ruthless gangster woman of the 1930s, queen of the underground lottery and one of the first African-Americans to assert her feminist struggle.
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In 1930s Harlem, she was an icon.
What an incredible destiny that of this elegant and distinguished Stéphanie St-Clair, who came from her native Martinique, and became a figure of New York banditry, to the point of crossing swords with Dutch Schultz or Lucky Luciano.
In the community, she was nicknamed "Queenie", or "Madame Queen".
It must be said that this ruthless gangster woman was the queen of the underground lottery.
She was also one of the first African-Americans to dare to assert loud and clear a feminism that would prove to be fruitful.
It is this extraordinary life, against a background of jazz music and the struggle for civil rights, that our two guests today tell us in a graphic black and white novel that unfolds like a cinema film.
"Queenie, the godmother of Harlem", by
Elizabeth Colomba
and
Aurélie Lévy
, is a graphic novel published by Anne Carrière editions.
Report:
Fanny Gelb
was interested in the new creation of the Fernand Léger National Museum entitled the “Fernand Léger mixtape”.
A project carried out in partnership with the production company Narrative, RFI Labo and the support of Matmut for the arts.
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