My Dear Boy - Carrie Hughes's Letters to Langston Hughes, 1926-1938

Informationen zum Autor Carmaletta M. Williams (Editor) CARMALETTA M. WILLIAMS, professor of English and African American studies at Johnson County Community College, is the author of Langston Hughes in the Classroom: "Do Nothin' till You Hear from Me" and Of Two Spirits: American Indian and African American Oral Histories . John Edgar Tidwell (Editor) JOHN EDGAR TIDWELL is a professor of English at the University of Kansas. His previous books include Montage of a Dream: The Art and Life of Langston Hughes , After Winter: The Art and Life of Sterling A. Brown , and Writings of Frank Marshall Davis: A Voice of the Black Press . Klappentext 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 - 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. Zusammenfassung My Dear Boy brings a largely unexplored dimension of Langston Hughes to light through the study of his private correspondence with his mother! Carrie. More than 120 heretofore unexamined letters reveal the difficult negotiations between family and art that this complex writer navigated while defining his artistic reputation.

Product details

• Authors: Carrie Hughes, Carmeletta M. (EDT)/ Tidwell Williams
• Assisted by: John Tidwell (Editor), John Edgar Tidwell (Editor), Carmaletta Williams (Editor), Carmaletta M Williams (Editor), Carmaletta M. Williams (Editor), Carmeletta M. Williams (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2013
• EAN: 9780820345659
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-4565-9
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Amerika, Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, Anthologien (nicht Lyrik), BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Letters, Literature - Classics / Criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American