Hughes, Carrie, -1938.

My dear boy : Carrie Hughes's letters to Langston Hughes, 1926-1938 / Carrie Hughes's letters to Langston Hughes, 1926-1938 edited by Carmaletta M. Williams and John Edgar Tidwell. - Athens : The University of Georgia Press, (c)2013. - 1 online resource (xvii, 199 pages) : illustrations.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Following Langston: A foreword by Nikky Finney -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Chronology -- Prologue -- The letters: Dreams deferred, 1926-1929; Zenith and descent, 1930-1934; Things fall apart, 1935; Dear lovely death, 1936-1938 -- Coda -- Epilogue -- Second coda.

"Tidwell and Williams analyze the causal relationships in her interactions with Langston and other family members through the use of psychiatrist Murray Bowen's Family Systems Theory (FST). . . . The editors have grouped the 250 letters chronologically into four sections, each preceded by a brief contextual introduction" --



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Hughes, Carrie, -1938 --Correspondence.
Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967 --Correspondence.


Mothers of authors--United States--Correspondence.
African American mothers--Biography.
African American authors--Family relationships.


Electronic Books.

PS3515 / .M934 2013