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Journals related to American Literature

The following is a selection of journals available at Kent State relating to the topic of American Literature. To browse a more complete list please click here to go to the Journal Finder tool.

American Literature (Durham, N.C.)
Covers numerous American authors from colonial to contemporary every issue. Additionally includes a book review section with citations on professional books, collections, anthologies, reprints, and new editions.
MELUS
The Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States provides numerous articles dating back 20 years about stories surrounding the ethnic minorities of the U.S.
Early American Literature
Journal articles on a variety of topics in American Literature from the colonial period 1600 to 1775 and early America 1775 to 1850.
African American Review
A quarterly published scholarly collection of insightful essays on African American literature including culture, fiction, poems, theater, film, and book reviews. The AAR has featured numerous acclaimed writers and critics including Trudier Harris, Arnold Rampersad, Hortense Spillers, Amiri Baraka, Cyrus Cassells, Rita Dove, Charles Johnson, Cheryl Wall, and Toni Morrison.
Studies in American Indian Literatures
Published by the University of Nebraska, SAIL is the only journal in the United States that focuses exclusively on American Indian literature, writing, and culture.
American Literary History
From Oxford Academic, this journal covers the study from its origins to the present and offers forums for various and often different voices of contemporary literary inquiry. It also stores and welcomes articles of various historical and theoritical problems within the field.
Arizona Quarterly
Focuses on publication of scholarly essays in American literature's culture and theory. The journal subjects these categories to debate, argument, interpretation, contestation via critical readings of primary texts.

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