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Postcolonial Literatures and Arts

Postcolonial Literatures and Arts is a peer-reviewed journal devoted to the criticism of English-speaking postcolonial literatures and arts. Its first issue, dated 2023, takes up and continues under another name the journal Commonwealth Essays and Studies, published for the first time in 1975 by the Société Française d’Études du Commonwealth (created in 1971), which became in 2021 the Société des Études Postcoloniales (SEPC). All issues of the journal under the title Commonwealth Essays and Studies are available digitally, with open access, on the Persée platform for issues published between 1975 and 1999, and on the OpenEdition portal for those published between 2000 and 2022 < https://journals.openedition.org/ces/>.

The evolution of the journal’s title (and of the society that runs it) reflects the conceptual shift from Commonwealth studies to postcolonial studies, and the current interest in the effects of globalisation on English-language literature. The transition from print to electronic publication in 2019 has enabled the journal to maintain its status as a valued international contribution to the field of English-language literature studies.

Postcolonial Literatures and Arts is published twice a year, only in English. One issue out of two is devoted to communications from the annual thematic workshop of the Societé des Anglicistes de l’Enseignement Supérieur (SAES); it is guest-edited by the workshop president/s. The other annual issue offers a more specialized subject, or is devoted to an author honored by literary news (Nobel Prize in Literature for example); in all cases, international specialists are invited to contribute. The articles published are original. Each issue also includes reviews of critical and theoretical works, and sometimes interviews on literary subjects. Thus, the editorial policy of this international journal is both to publicize the work of French researchers abroad (SAES issue) and to stimulate international collaborations (special issues).

The current editor-in-chief of Postcolonial Literatures and Arts is Kerry-Jane Wallart (University of Orléans). The editorial committees are elected by the general assembly of SEPC members which meets once a year in the autumn, during the SAES days. Terms of office are limited to six years, renewable if necessary. The eligibility criteria are as follows: be a member of the SEPC and have experience as a member of the reading committee for at least two years. The Reading Committee and the International Scientific Committee are open bodies (their members are not limited in number) and diverse: researchers, teacher-researchers, and authors who regularly participate in the evaluation process of articles submitted for publication are invited to become members of the Reading Committee (for colleagues from French institutions) or the International Scientific Committee (for international colleagues), with the aim of representing the diversity of the field of study of postcolonial literatures, arts and cultures. Members leave committees when they no longer wish to participate in evaluation activities.

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