Callaloo (literary magazine)

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 probably the longest continuously running African-American literary magazine.[2]

Callaloo
DisciplineAfrican-American literature
LanguageEnglish
Edited byCharles Henry Rowell
Publication details
History1976–present
Publisher
FrequencyQuarterly
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4Callaloo
Indexing
ISSN0161-2492 (print)
1080-6512 (web)
JSTORcallaloo
OCLC no.41669989
Links

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]

According to Scopus, it has a 2018 CiteScore of 0.04, ranking 479/736 in the category "Literature and Literary Theory".[4]

See also

References
  1. "Top 50 Literary Magazine". EWR. Retrieved August 17, 2015.
  2. "Eminent African American Literary journal Celebrates 25th Year" Archived 2011-09-28 at the Wayback Machine. CLMP Newswire
  3. "Callaloo". MIAR: Information Matrix for the Analysis of Journals. University of Barcelona. Retrieved 5 August 2018.
  4. "Scopus preview - Scopus - Sources". www.scopus.com.


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