My dear boy
Subtitle: Carrie Hughes's letters to Langston Hughes, 1926-1938
By: edited by Carmaletta M. Williams and John Edgar Tidwell
Contributors: Williams, Carmaletta M., 1951- editor; Tidwell, John Edgar, editor
Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 199
ISBN-13: 9780820345659
Subjects: Correspondence; Biography; African American authors; Family relationships; Mothers of authors; African American mothers
Other titles: Carrie Hughes's letters to Langston Hughes, 1926-1938
Work titles: Correspondence
Description: "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" --
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Following Langston: A foreword by Nikky Finney; title: Preface; title: Abbreviations; title: Chronology; title: Prologue; title: The letters: Dreams deferred, 1926-1929; Zenith and descent, 1930-1934; Things fall apart, 1935; Dear lovely death, 1936-1938; title: Coda; title: Epilogue; title: Second coda.