![]() ![]() His 1967 study, Langston Hughes, was the first major literary and biographical analysis of Hughes. ![]() Emanuel’s meticulous notes and revisions of his poems, a draft of his autobiography, and materials that chart his connections with other Black writers and poets reside on archival shelves in the company of the papers of other Black intellectuals Emanuel knew or admired-among them Frederick Douglass, Herbert Hill, Ralph Ellison, and Langston Hughes.Įmanuel particularly revered poet, playwright, short story writer, and culture conveyer Langston Hughes (1902-1967), and considered Hughes a mentor and primary inspiration for his own life as a Black poet and writer. ![]() Emanuel (1921-2013) are available to researchers through the Library of Congress Manuscript Division. The personal papers of poet, teacher, editor, and literary critic James A. The following guest post was written by Barbara Bair, curator of literature, culture and the arts in the Library’s Manuscript Division. Emanuel and the African American Literary Tradition ![]()
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