Callaloo (literary magazine)
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| Discipline | African-American literature |
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| Language | English |
| Edited by | Charles Henry Rowell |
| Publication details | |
| History | 1976–present |
| Publisher | |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| Standard abbreviations | |
| ISO 4 | Callaloo |
| Indexing | |
| ISSN | 0161-2492 (print) 1080-6512 (web) |
| JSTOR | callaloo |
| OCLC no. | 41669989 |
| Links | |
)Callaloo, A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters, is a quarterly literary magazine that was established in 1976[1] by Charles Rowell, who remains its editor-in-chief. It contains creative writing, visual art, and critical texts about literature and culture of the African diaspora, and is the longest continuously running African-American literary magazine.[2] It has been published by the Johns Hopkins University Press since 1986.
In addition to receiving grants of support from agencies such as the Lannan Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, the magazine has garnered a number of honors, including the best special issue of a journal from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals for "The Haitian Issues" in 1992 (volume 15.2 & 3: Haiti: the Literature and Culture Parts I & II); an honorable mention for the "Best Special Issue of a Journal" in 2001 from the Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division of the American Association (volume 24.1: The Confederate Flag Controversy: A Special Section); and recognition for the Winter 2002 issue from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals as one of the best special issues of that year (volume 25.1: Jazz Poetics).
Abstracting and indexing[]
Callaloo is abstracted and indexed in the following bibliographic databases:[3]
- Academic Search Premier
- Arts and Humanities Citation Index
- IBZ Online
- Index Islamicus
- International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance
- MLA - Modern Language Association Database
- Periodicals Index Online
- Public Affairs Index
- Scopus
According to Scopus, it has a 2018 CiteScore of 0.04, ranking 479/736 in the category "Literature and Literary Theory".[4]
See also[]
- List of literary magazines
- African-American literature
- African American culture
References[]
- ^ "Top 50 Literary Magazine". EWR. Retrieved August 17, 2015.
- ^ "Eminent African American Literary journal Celebrates 25th Year" Archived 2011-09-28 at the Wayback Machine. CLMP Newswire
- ^ "Callaloo". MIAR: Information Matrix for the Analysis of Journals. University of Barcelona. Retrieved 5 August 2018.
- ^ "Scopus preview - Scopus - Sources". www.scopus.com.
External links[]
- Official website
- Callaloo on the Johns Hopkins University Press website
- Callaloo at Project MUSE
- Callaloo at JSTOR
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