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James A. Emanuel Project
Tyechia L. ThompsonAuthor
James Andrew Emanuel (June 15, 1921 - September 28, 2013) was a World War II veteran, a scholar of African American Literature, an international educator, an innovative poet, and an African American expatriate in Paris. Between 1994 and 1995, Emanuel sent to the Manuscript Division at the Library of Congress (LOC) 4,000 items that would become the James A. Emanuel Papers; this collection now has over 5,400 items. The James A. Emanuel Project provides public access to 268 items from the Emanuel Papers at the LOC, highlighting Emanuel’s academic career, creative work, and strategies of remembrance and survival. The project accomplishes this through its six parts—Brief Biography, Mini Stories, Poetry Analyses, Poetry Readings, a Documentary, and Collections.
Cover Image: James A. Emanuel at his window in Paris. (2000). James A. Emanuel Papers (1922-2018), Library of Congress, Box 15 Folder 7.
Background Image: James A. Emanuel and Godelieve Simons, collaboration. Print art of Emanuel's poem “Otherness in Me” and Simons visual design. Purchased by Tyechia L. Thompson in Paris, 2011.
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James A. Emanuel Digital Archive Collections
James A. Emanuel Digital Archive Collections contain 268 items--most from the James A. Emanuel Papers at the Library of Congress. This digital archive was curated to provide a representative sample of the over 5,000 materials in the Library of Congress' Collection. This digital archive has all of the audio recordings in Emanuel's LOC collection. Themes within the collections (Poetry, Letters, and Photographs, Miscellaneous) include: Early Life, Colleagues, Love, Memory, Travel, Tribulation, Water, and Work.
Resource Collections
Poetry Collection
CollectionLetters and Notes Collection
CollectionAudio Collection
CollectionPhoto Collection
CollectionLiterary Criticism
CollectionMiscellaneous
Collection
Single Resources
Spreadsheet Image White-Justice: A New York Souvenir
Image For Young Blacks, the Lost Generation (Newsweek, 8/14/78) (3 of 3)
Image For Young Blacks, the Lost Generation (Newsweek, 8/14/78) (2 of 3)
Image For Young Blacks, the Lost Generation (Newsweek, 8/14/78) (1 of 3)
Image Pie Chart Visualization of "Top 20 Titles of Work Distribution"
Image Not important Titles of 1993
Image James Emanuel reading at conference in Munster Germany 1999 Photo
Image James Emanuel in the north of Ireland Photo
Image Clothesline that inspired poem Clothesline, Rue Marie Photo
Metadata
- container titleJames A. Emanuel Project
- isbn978-1-962841-29-0
- publisherVirginia Tech Publishing
- publisher placeBlacksburg, Virginia; New York City, New York
- restrictionsIf you wish to use any of the materials for purposes beyond those allowed by the Copyright and Content Statement, please contact us to request permission. All such requests will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis.
- rightsThe James A. Emanuel Project applies different licenses across the site. Please see the Copyright and Content Statement.
- rights holderJames A. Emanuel Estate, Tyechia L. Thompson
- rights territoryUnited States of America
- doi