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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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