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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790782703321

Autore

Hughes Carrie -1938

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athens : , : University of Georgia Press, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

0-8203-5385-X

0-8203-4639-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (238 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

WilliamsCarmaletta M. <1951->

Disciplina

818/.5209

Soggetti

Mothers of authors - United States

African American mothers

African American authors - Family relationships

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

"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" --