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My Dear Boy - Carrie Hughes's Letters to Langston Hughes, 1926-1938 (Hardcover, New)
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My Dear Boy - Carrie Hughes's Letters to Langston Hughes, 1926-1938 (Hardcover, New)
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"My Dear Boy" brings a largely unexplored dimension of Langston
Hughes to light. Carmaletta Williams and John Edgar Tidwell explain
that scholars have neglected the vital role that correspondence
between Carrie Hughes and her son Langston--Harlem Renaissance
icon, renowned poet, playwright, fiction writer, autobiographer,
and essayist--played in his work.
The more than 120 heretofore unexamined letters presented here are
a veritable treasure trove of insights into the relationship
between mother Carrie and her renowned son Langston. Until now, a
scholarly consensus had begun to emerge, accepting the idea of
their lives and his art as simple and transparent. But as Williams
and Tidwell argue, this correspondence is precisely where scholars
should start in order to understand the underlying complexity in
Carrie and Langston's relationship. By employing Family Systems
Theory for the first time in Hughes scholarship, they demonstrate
that it is an essential heuristic for analyzing the Hughes family
and its influence on his work. The study takes the critical truism
about Langston's reticence to reveal his inner self and shows how
his responses to Carrie were usually not in return letters but,
instead, in his created art. Thus "My Dear Boy" reveals the
difficult negotiations between family and art that Langston engaged
in as he attempted to sustain an elusive but enduring artistic
reputation.
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