The Journal of Commonwealth Literature

The Journal of Commonwealth Literature
DisciplineLiterature
LanguageEnglish
Edited byClaire Chambers, Susan Watkins
Publication details
History1966-present
Publisher
FrequencyQuarterly
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4J. Commonw. Lit.
Indexing
ISSN0021-9894
LCCN65009987
OCLC no.47091524
Links

The Journal of Commonwealth Literature (JCL) is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal that covers the field of literature, especially Commonwealth and postcolonial literatures, including colonial discourse and translational studies. The journal's editors-in-chief are Claire Chambers (University of York) and Rachael Gilmour (Queen Mary University of London).

It was established in 1966 by Norman Jeffares and Arthur Ravenscroft at Heinemann.[1][2] In 1970, JCL began being published by Oxford University Press. Hanz Zell became the publisher of JCL in 1979.[3] Zell was acquired by K. G. Saur Verlag the following year.[4] After Saur was acquired by Reed International in 1987, its British division was merged with the British holdings of sister publisher R. R. Bowker to form Bowker-Saur. Cambridge Information Group acquired Bowker-Saur in 2001.[5] JCL has been published by SAGE Publications since 2003.

Abstracting and indexing

The Journal of Commonwealth Literature is abstracted and indexed in:

References

  1. ^ A. Norman Jeffares, 'Arthur Ravenscroft, 1924 – 1989', The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 24 (1989), vii–ix, doi:10.1177/002198948902400102.
  2. ^ Low, Gail (2015-09-01). "Professing the common wealth of literature, Leeds 1957–1969". The Journal of Commonwealth Literature. 50 (3): 267–281. doi:10.1177/0021989415589356. ISSN 0021-9894. S2CID 146529563. Retrieved 2022-07-12.
  3. ^ McLeod, John (2015-09-01). "The Journal of Commonwealth Literature in the 1970s". The Journal of Commonwealth Literature. 50 (3): 282–296. doi:10.1177/0021989415594653. ISSN 0021-9894. S2CID 146326915. Retrieved 2022-07-12.
  4. ^ "Hans Zell Publishing, A Short History". Retrieved 2022-07-12.
  5. ^ "Cambridge Information Group Acquires R.R. Bowker". Library Technology Guides. 2001-08-31. Retrieved 2020-08-16.