AmLit

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AmLit – American Literatures (AmLit; ISSN 2789-889X), located at the Research Area 'American Studies II' at the University of Graz, is an international peer-reviewed open-access journal for literary criticism in the fields of U.S. American , Canadian, and Latin American Studies . AmLit is a cooperation between eight universities spread all over Europe:      - University of Graz (Austria)      - University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany)      - "L'Orientale" University of Naples (Italy)      - Queen’s University, Belfast (United Kingdom)      - Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen (The Netherlands)      - Palacký University, Olomouc (Czech Republic)      - Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece)      - Akaki Tsereteli University, Kutaisi (Georgia) The unique philosophy of the journal is its focus on cutting-edge discourses in the fields of digital literature & cultures , transnational & border studies , as well as visuality & trans-/intermediality . In particular, the journal tackles the following questions: 1.) What significance do literary texts have within the vortex of ongoing global changes and social transformations? 2.) Which theoretical instruments can we employ to rethink ‘the literary’ today? 3.) How have the functions of literature changed in the course of recent developments such as the Covid-19 pandemic? 4.) Which roles do digitization and intermediation assume in the creation of innovative methods of narrativization and aestheticization in literatures from the Americas?                                                     Read More 2025-07-10 Call for Proposals for AmLit - American Literatures (Deadline: Monday, September 15, 2025) We invite proposals from prospective guest editors interested in curating a special issue for AmLit – American Literatures, a Diamond Open Access journal dedicated to publishing cutting-edge scholarship on contemporary developments in American literatures. 2025-04-01 New Issue: Potentials of Positionality We are excited to announce the release of a new issue (5.1 of AmLit - American Literatures): Potentials of Positionality and/or Ethics of Exclusion? Critical Reading Approaches to Minority Literatures from the Americas You can access the latest issue by following this link:  https://amlit.eu/index.php/amlit/issue/current Issue description This special issue of AmLit explores how queer Black, Indigenous, and other racialized writers and artists represent the embodied reality of queer racialized existence in the Americas. The following questions arise in our engagement with the nexus of queer racialized ... See the full issue Full Issue Full Issue Corina Wieser-Cox, Ola, Rita Elizabeth Maricocchi, Dorit Neumann Introduction Introduction Tilo Böhme Queering the Macho: Sexuality and Hegemonic Masculinity in Queer Chicanx Poetry Queering the Macho: Sexuality and Hegemonic Masculinity in Queer Chicanx Poetry Oluwadunni. O Talabi Queer Black Feminist Self-Poetics in Toni Morrison’s Sula Queer Black Feminist Self-Poetics in Toni Morrison’s Sula Dorit Neumann “You Cannot Escape Specters”: The Hauntology of Blackness and Queer Performativities in Brit Bennet’s The Vanishing Half “You Cannot Escape Specters”: The Hauntology of Blackness and Queer Performativities in Brit Bennett’s The Vanishing Half Lena Falk (In)Visibilities of Female Same-Sex Desire in Marilyn Bobes’ Short Story “Somebody Has to Cry” (In)Visibilities of Female Same-Sex Desire in Marilyn Bobes’ Short Story “Somebody Has to Cry” Anne Stellberger Queer Orientation and Space in Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous Queer Orientation and Space in Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous × Editorial Team | AmLit - American Literatures Skip to main navigation menu Skip to main content Skip to site footer General Editors’ Board for AmLit – American Literatures (names in alphabetical order)   Stefan L. BRANDT   Barbara BUCHENAU   Donatella IZZO   Philip McGOWAN   Frank MEHRING   Michal PEPRNIK   Tatiani RAPATZIKOU   Irakli TSKHVEDIANI × Contact | AmLit - American Literatures Skip to main navigation menu Skip to main content Skip to site footer [email protected] Principal Contact Stefan Brandt [email protected] Support Contact Karl Rizzolli [email protected] × Submissions | AmLit - American Literatures Skip to main navigation menu Skip to main content Skip to site footer Login or Register to make a submission. Submission Preparation Checklist As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines. Please be advised that we cannot process submissions beyond the planned thematic issues for 2024, 2025, and 2026 (consult the announcement page for Calls for Papers). Should there be a change of plans, you will be notified. At this time we only accept submissions of individual articles and not themed issues. The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor). The format is correct (.doc or .rtf). The document is anonymized (see: https://www.siam.org/publications/journals/related/journal-policies/detail/protecting-referee-personal-information). Where available, URLs for the references have been provided. Rights and permissions have been secured. Style requirements listed in the “Instructions for Contributors” are observed. An abstract of your essay (180 words, +/- 10%), including your name and affiliation, and a short bio sketch (max. 200 words) are included in a separate document. A list of 5-7 keywords is included at the end of the article. When you publish with AmLit, you consent to the Creative Commons License Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode Author Guidelines Instructions for Contributors & Code of Ethics Privacy Statement The names and email addresses entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party. × About the Journal | AmLit - American Literatures Skip to main navigation menu Skip to main content Skip to site footer Many of the paradigm shifts and changes in the literary scene of recent years are either closely linked to the literary and cultural practices in North, Central and South America or build on developments in the political, cultural, and social life in these hemispheres (keywords: digital cultures, transnationalism, and inter-/transmediality). A journal on American literatures , which examines these cultural factors in their literary expressions, therefore appears more than timely. As an independent art form, literature is able to register, trace, and narrativize complex cultural developments such as digitization , migration , globalization, trans- and interculturality as well as visuality and intermediality . The literatures of North, Central and South America play a crucial role in the aesthetic negotiation of these complex global processes, channeling them into cultural practices and imbuing them with recognizable aesthetic patterns of representation.   The online journal AmLit – American Literatures offers a publication forum for scholarly essays from the fields of American, Canadian, and Latin American literary studies that deal with fictional, non-fictional, and graphic texts as well as book reviews. The unique philosophy of the journal is its focus on current questions and discourses in literary studies, especially with regard to the research areas ‘ Digital Literature & Cultures ’, ‘ Transnational & Border Studies ’ and ‘ Visuality & Trans-/Intermediality. ’   Questions of central relevance include: What significance do literary texts have within global social change? How have the functions of literature changed in the course of these developments, and with which theoretical instruments can we rethink ‘the literary’ today? Which innovative narratives and aesthetic forms are enabled by digitization and intermediation?   The methodological orientation of the journal encompasses all major branches of literary studies (African American & Ethnic Studies, Gender, Feminist & Queer Theory, Marxist Theory, New Historicism, Postcolonialism, Socio- Linguistics, Structuralism and Poststructuralism, etc.). From a thematic point of view, AmLit connects works in a transdisciplinary dialogue on an international level, but places special emphasis on American Studies, Canadian Studies, and Latin American Studies scholars in Europe.   The target group for this publication is the academic community, with scholars and advanced students from all European countries, but potentially also from the USA, Canada, Africa, Asia, Australia and Central and South America. The abovementioned thematic links are reflected in the organizational composition of the General Board, which includes representatives of different countries (Austria, Czech Republic, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, UK).   × Local Editorial Staff | AmLit - American Literatures Skip to main navigation menu Skip to main content Skip to site footer University of Graz, Department of American Studies, Chair for American Studies II, Research Area for American Literary and Cultural History with a Focus on (Trans-)Nationality and Space  Univ.-Prof. Dr. Stefan L. Brandt Saptarshi Mallick, PhD Lisa Buchegger, BBA, MA   Office: Georg Gruber, BA × About Open Journal Systems | AmLit - American Literatures Skip to main navigation menu Skip to main content Skip to site footer This journal uses Open Journal Systems 3.3.0.19, which is open source journal management and publishing software developed, supported, and freely distributed by the Public Knowledge Project under the GNU General Public License. Visit PKP's website to learn more about the software . Please contact the journal directly with questions about the journal and submissions to the journal. ×

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