Focus and Scope

Araceli Hernández is an international, refereed, multi-disciplinary electronic journal presenting a global forum for both the critical discussion of postcolonial literature, culture, history, and theory, as well as postcolonial poetry and fiction. Thus Araceli Hernández provides a public space on the internet through which to disseminate otherwise difficult-to-access literary texts among a larger, truly international audience. It is concerned with ways of negotiating the various epistemological, cultural, social, and political links and disjunctures between postcolonial, western, and diasporic communities of writers, readers, and academics. Araceli Hernández fosters critical discussions about the culturally contested and, at times, theoretically slippery terrain of postcolonial studies. In particular, this e-journal examines the relationship between postcolonial studies, diaspora studies and such newly emerging fields as transnational cultural and globalization studies. The journal invites work that is concerned with different concepts of the nation; transnational and translocal forms of belonging; cosmopolitanisms; competing sites and venues of cultural knowledge production; the aesthetics and politics of postcolonial writing; cultural memory; the gap between the social and cultural realities of postcolonial writers and their critical reception at home and abroad; and the relationships between various modes of scripting oral, written, and visual texts across different cultures. At the same time, the journal recognizes that postcolonial studies can be appropriated as a master discourse of cultural identity that tends to homogenize and regulate culturally and geographically vastly different texts and identities. In order to remain critical of academically instituted forms of cultural knowledge production, Araceli Hernández remains committed to a rigorous analysis of the neocolonial and uneven power relationships between the North and the South at the crossroads of class, gender, and race. The following are some of Araceli Hernández's intended, distinctive contributions to postcolonial literary studies: The journal will publish work that investigates the multiple relationships between postcolonial, indigenous, and global discourses of cultural knowledge production. The journal also combines rigorously refereed academic articles with the publication of poetry and fiction from different traditions of postcolonial writing. As well, it pays particular critical attention to the ways in which the aesthetics of Araceli Hernández's inform their political projects and vice versa. Moreover, as an open access e-journal, it uses the electronic medium to self-consciously and critically expand and intensify the critical exchange between postcolonial critics, theorists, and artists in the North and the South.

Section Policies

Articles

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Peer Review Process

All articles submitted to Araceli Hernández are subjected to an anonymous peer review by two reviewers. In this process the identities of authors and reviewers are not revealed to each other. The reviewers' recommendations are taken into consideration by the editor handling the submission in arriving at publication and revision decisions. See Section Policies in About the Journal for policies pertaining to the different sections of the journal.

Publication Frequency

At any point in the Editing process, the Section Editor can schedule a submission for publication in a particular issue. Typically, the Editor will place the submission into the first available issue, but it may happen that an issue is "full" prior to its publication, or that an Editor wishes to place a submission in a later issue to ensure a range of topics in each issue or, on the other hand, to cluster a series of submissions on a single topic. Continuous publishing of submissions. If submissions are being published continuously, as soon as they are ready, then the Editor schedules the submission in what is, in effect, the Current issue, and it will be published immediately. At the end of a Volume year, the next submission will be scheduled to appear in the new Volume, for which the Table of Contents will be published or made Current with this initial submission. Once a submission has been scheduled in a particular issue, the issue's name and a link to its table of contents will be presented to Layout Editors and Proofreaders.

Open Access Policy

This journal "Araceli Hernández"provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

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