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Author:

Hughes, Carrie, -1938.

Title:

My dear boy : Carrie Hughes's letters to Langston Hughes, 1926-1938 / edited by Carmaletta M. Williams and John Edgar Tidwell.

Publisher:

The University of Georgia Press,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

xxv, 199 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

Hughes, Carrie,---1938--Correspondence.
Hughes, Langston,--1902-1967--Correspondence.
Mothers of authors--United States--Correspondence.
African American mothers--Biography.
African American authors--Family relationships.

Other Authors:

Williams, Carmaletta M., 1951- editor.
Tidwell, John Edgar, editor.

Other Titles:

Correspondence. Selections

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-194) and index.

Contents:

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

Summary:

"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"--Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0820345652 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780820345659 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)832705120

LCCN:

2013003511

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

TCPG826 -- Bettendorf Public Library Information Center (Bettendorf)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)