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

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affect, 10, 15–16. See also Bowen, Murray Amele. See McNaughton, Amelia Amelie. See McNaughton, Amelia American Mercury, 70, 74n1 anaconda love, 19 Annjee (fictional character), 166–68, 170–71 appropriate fusion, 11, 174. See also Bowen, Murray Aunt Hagar (fictional character), 166–67, 169–70 Auntie Reed. See Campbell, Mary Reed Baltimore Afro-American, 130, 132, 156 Bernard, Emily, xvii, xix, 184 Berry, Faith, 4, 6 Bethune, Mary McLeod, 118, 120, 175–76, 184n5 Big Sea, The (Hughes), x, 19, 89n1, 165, 185 Black and White (film), xxv, 59 Black Masonic Fraternity, 4 Bontemps, Arna, xxiv, 59, 182, 184; Popo and Fifina (with Hughes), 58 Bowen, Murray, 8–10, 14–18, 40, 92, 165, 172, 180; affect, 10, 15–16; appropriate fusion, 11, 174; differentiation , 8–9, 176; enmeshment, 8, 19–20, 40–41, 92, 181; functional kin, 10, 172, 182; fusion, 8, 10, 13, 16, 23, 129, 172–74, 178, 180–81; inappropriate fusion, 10, 12, 15–16, 19, 25, 41, 90, 130, 169, 174, 176–77, 180–82, 186; individuation, 9–12, 16, 41, 173–74, 181; selfdifferentiation , 8–11, 16, 92, 172; triangulation, 8, 16–17, 41; undifferentiated child, 164–65 Brown, John, xxi, 4–5, 46n2, 47 Brown, Dr. Stanley, 121–22n2, 123, 130, 135, 143n1, 143–45 Bump, Jerome, 7 Burns, Effie, 48n1 index 196  index Burroughs, Nannie Helen, 147, 148–49n1 call and response, xvi, 3, 163 Campbell, Mary Reed, xxiii, xxv, 10, 56, 82, 118, 120, 126 Civic Club, 65, 84 Clark, Carolyn (“Carrie”) Mercer Hughes: as Belle of Black Lawrence , xxi, 41, 186; birth of, xxi; blood tumor of, xxv, 91, 93, 111, 115, 118, 123, 124n1, 126, 129–31; blood tumor treatments of, 93, 111, 116n1, 121–22n2, 134, 134–35n2, 143n1; burned leg of, 43, 77n1, 87; critics’ perspectives on, xv, xvii, 1, 3–7; death of, xxv, 161–62; and family relations, 5, 7, 11–14, 16; importuning of, 24–25, 43, 45, 92, 108, 113, 115, 134; and inappropriate fusing, 12, 15, 16, 20; names of, xvi, 3; over-involvement of, 10, 27, 42, 43, 51, 53, 56, 60, 64, 75, 88–89, 90, 96, 123, 130; stage career of, 60, 62, 73, 74, 75; and triangulation, 17–18, 40, 41, 67, 69, 87, 150 Clark, Gwyn Shannon “Kit,” xxiii, xxiv, xxv; academic issues of, 29, 31–32, 46, 47n1, 48–49, 68, 70, 79, 81–82, 118; college attendance of, 122, 147–48, 149n3, 156, 157n1, 160n1; health issues of, 26, 91–92, 94, 98–100, 102–3; and sports, 79–80; work of, 71, 72, 106, 110, 112, 116, 147, 152, 155; work sought by, 54, 58, 68, 101, 104, 124, 139, 140 Clark, Homer (“Dad”): marriage of, to Carrie, xxiii, 3, 20; presumed dead, 184n4; reportedly ill, 66, 67, 69–70, 107; as traveling man, 6, 81, 84, 85, 87, 170; and triangulation, 167; mentioned, 40, 47–48, 50–51, 54, 58, 61, 72, 74, 78, 184n4 Colored Benevolent Society, 4 Conjure Man Dies, The (Fisher), 158, 159n1 “Cross” (Hughes), 174 Decker, William, 2 “De Lawd” (Richard B. Harrison), 59, 106–7 Desalines. See Langston, Desalines differentiation, 8–9, 176. See also Bowen, Murray “doormat woman,” 19 Douglas, Aaron, 37 “Dream Deferred, A” (Hughes), ix Dream Keeper, The (Hughes), 58, 89 Emerson. See Harper, Emerson Emmerson. See Harper, Emerson enmeshment. See under Bowen, Murray Fire!!, x, xxiv, 38n5 Fisher, Rudolph, 96, 131; The Conjure Man Dies, 158, 159n1 Flutes of Shanghai, The (Miln), 76, 77n2 Freudian psychoanalytic theories, 7 Friedman, Dr., 130, 135, 160n2 functional kin, 10, 172, 182. See also Bowen, Murray fusion. See under Bowen, Murray index  197 Garvin, Dr. Charles Herbert, 135, 160n2 Garvin, Sallie, 59, 60, 61n2, 71, 76, 123, 124n1 Gershwin, George, 38n6 Gershwin, Ira, 38n6 “Godmother.” See Mason, Charlotte Osgood Green Pastures (play), 59, 81–82, 106 Guggenheim Fellowship, 108, 109n1, 112, 118 Guitar (fictional character), 19 Handy, W. C., 37 Harper, Emerson, 52, 61, 63, 126, 142 Harper, Ethel (“Toy”), 52, 61, 63, 66, 70, 75, 125, 126, 141, 142, 158, 159 Harper’s Ferry Shawl, xxiii, xxv, 45, 46n2, 51 Harriett (fictional character), 166, 169–70 Harrison, Richard B., 59, 106–7 Harvey, Sherman, 32, 33n1 Hayes, Roland, 34, 35n1 Heyward, Dorothy, 38n6 Heyward, DuBose, 38n6 Historic Times, The, 33 Holloway, Dr., 121n2, 129, 134, 135n2, 136, 139 Hughes, Caroline. See Clark, Carolyn (“Carrie”) Mercer Hughes Hughes, James Nathaniel, xxii, xxv, 60, 72, 85...