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- Langston Hughes in Context
- Langston Hughes in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Singing America
- Chapter 1 Langston Hughes, Chicago, and Modernism
- Chapter 2 Jazz, Performance, and Modernist Embodiment in Langston Hughes’s Early Writing
- Chapter 3 His Ways with White Folks
- Chapter 4 Love at a Distance in Selected Letters by Langston and Carrie Hughes
- Chapter 5 Langston Hughes’s 1930s Short Fiction
- Chapter 6 Langston Hughes and Simple
- Chapter 7 Langston Hughes’s Famous Books, Ebony Magazine, and the Politics of Civil Rights in Biographies for the Young
- Chapter 8 Rural Black Masculinity and the Blues in Not without Laughter
- Chapter 9 From the Sublime to the Grotesque
- Chapter 10 Coalitional Aesthetics
- Chapter 11 Langston Hughes’s Translingual Poetics and Pedagogy
- Part II The Global Langston Hughes
- Part III Afterlives
- Index
Chapter 4 - Love at a Distance in Selected Letters by Langston and Carrie Hughes
from Part I - Singing America
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 November 2022
- Langston Hughes in Context
- Langston Hughes in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Singing America
- Chapter 1 Langston Hughes, Chicago, and Modernism
- Chapter 2 Jazz, Performance, and Modernist Embodiment in Langston Hughes’s Early Writing
- Chapter 3 His Ways with White Folks
- Chapter 4 Love at a Distance in Selected Letters by Langston and Carrie Hughes
- Chapter 5 Langston Hughes’s 1930s Short Fiction
- Chapter 6 Langston Hughes and Simple
- Chapter 7 Langston Hughes’s Famous Books, Ebony Magazine, and the Politics of Civil Rights in Biographies for the Young
- Chapter 8 Rural Black Masculinity and the Blues in Not without Laughter
- Chapter 9 From the Sublime to the Grotesque
- Chapter 10 Coalitional Aesthetics
- Chapter 11 Langston Hughes’s Translingual Poetics and Pedagogy
- Part II The Global Langston Hughes
- Part III Afterlives
- Index
Summary
The existing scholarship on Langston Hughes contains few detailed studies of his relationship with his mother and its effect on his creative writing. This chapter addresses this omission by looking at the tension between Langston and his mother, Carrie. It is rooted in the call made several years ago by the eminent biographer Arnold Rampersad to infuse Black life writing with more psychological analyses. Using Murray Bowen’s family systems theory as a heuristic, the chapter explores the central issue of their familial arrangement: how physical and emotional distance affected their love for each other and the makeup of his art.
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- Langston Hughes in Context , pp. 42 - 50Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022