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| African American Review - http://aar.slu.edu | ||
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| Joe Weixlmann Editor Houston A. Baker Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Nellie Y. McKay Keith Byerman Kathy Hoalt
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 First published in
1967 as Negro American Literature Forum, and then as Black American
Literature Forum, African American Review
is published quarterly--March, June, September, and December at Saint Louis
University. Issues average 176 7x10" pages and include essays on
African American literature, theatre, film, visual arts, and culture generally;
interviews; poetry; fiction; and book reviews. In a March 1995 issue of Black Issues in Higher Education, critic Mae Henderson identified AAR as one of three journals "play[ing] . . . a momentous role in African American cultural life." AAR has received three American Literary Magazine Awards for Editorial Content; grants from the National Endowment for Arts, the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses. Recent contributors include renowned scholars such as Houston A. Baker, Jr. , Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Trudier Harris, Arnold Rampersad, and Hortense Spillers and prominent writers such as Amiri Baraka, Gwendolyn Brooks, Rita Dove, Charles Johnson, Toni Morrison, and Ishmael Reed. A recent reviewer remarked that "what makes AAR stand out isn't race but heritage. Its rich mixture of texture and tone is a welcome antidote to the cultural amnesia that prevails in [many] magazines.. ." African American Review publishes essays on African American literature, theater, film, art, and culture generally; interviews; poetry; fiction; bibliographies; and book reviews. Submission Guidelines for African American Review
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