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.

Introduction - Navigating the Project
James A. Emanuel: A Poet in Self Exile (Documentary)
Introduction - Navigating the Project
James A. Emanuel: A Poet in Self Exile (Documentary)James A. Emanuel Project CreditsCopyright and Content Statement
Photo of James A. Emanuel with a blue shirt standing at an open window in Paris.
James A. Emanuel Project CreditsCopyright and Content Statement

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

6 Total Collections

Single Resources

294 Total Resources

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  • rights
    The James A. Emanuel Project applies different licenses across the site. Please see the Copyright and Content Statement.

    Open-access edition funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Support for this project has been provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities through both the Mellon Digital Publication Fellowship and the Open Access Fellowship, with additional support from Virginia Tech.

  • container title
    James A. Emanuel Project
  • isbn
    978-1-962841-29-0
  • publisher
    Virginia Tech Publishing
  • publisher place
    Blacksburg, Virginia; New York City, New York
  • restrictions
    If 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.
  • rights holder
    James A. Emanuel Estate, Tyechia L. Thompson
  • rights territory
    United States of America
  • doi
    http://doi.org/10.21061/james-a-emanuel