Diaspora is dedicated to the multidisciplinary study of the history, culture, social structure, politics, and economics of both the traditional diasporas – Armenian, Greek, and Jewish – and the new transnational dispersions which in the past four decades have come to be identified as ‘diasporas.’ These encompass groups ranging from the African-, Chinese-,Indian-, and Mexican-American to the Ukrainian- and Haitian-Canadian, the Caribbean-British, the Antillean-French, and many others.
Published three times a year by the University of Toronto Press.
E-ISSN: 1911-1568
ISSN: 1044-2057
Khachig Tölölyan is a professor of English and Comparative Literature in the College of Letters at Wesleyan University in Connecticut. He has written on modern narrative and critical theory, Armenian Studies and terrorism, nationalism and diasporas. In addition to holding the position of Editor of Diaspora, Professor Tölölyan also co-edits Pynchon Notes .
Editorial Address
Professor Khachig Tölölyan,
Editor, Diaspora,
Wesleyan University,
Middletown, CT. 06459 USA
ktololyan@wesleyan.edu
David Konstan - Brown University
Vassilis Lambropoulos - University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Neil Lazarus - University of Warwick, UK
Ellen Rooney - Brown University
Yossi Shain - Georgetown and Tel Aviv Universities
Advisory Board
Lila Abu-Lughod - Columbia University
Anny Bakalian - City University of New York
Hazel Carby - Yale University
Kwok Bun Chan - Hong Kong Baptist University
Robin Cohen - University of Oxford
Terry Cochran - Université de Montréal
Anne Marie Corrigan - University of Toronto Press
Jean Franco - Columbia University
Evelyn Hu-DeHart - Brown University
Gregory Jusdanis - Ohio State University
John Lie - University of California - Berkeley
Rosemary M. George - University of California - San Diego
Hamid Naficy - Northwestern University
Susan Pattie - University of London
David Rapoport - University of California - Los Angeles
William Safran - University of Colorado - Boulder
Dominique Schnapper - Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, France
Gabriel Sheffer - Hebrew University
Gayatri Spivak - Columbia University
Leonard Tennenhouse - Brown University
Steven Vertovec - Max Planck Institute, Germany
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INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS
Diaspora welcomes articles on all aspects of the topics with which it is concerned: diaspora and related forms of dispersion, transnationalism, nationalism, ethnicity, globalization, and postcoloniality. The journal welcomes studies of specific diaspora communities, whether past, existent, or emerging. We solicit essays on all aspects of the sub-national, transnational, and globalizing phenomena that now challenge the nation-state and supplement the old international order, including but not limited to migrating peoples, cultures, nomadic ideas and works of art, and mass media productions that traverse frontiers.
We welcome contributions from the disciplines of anthropology, art history, cultural studies, economics, geography, history, linguistics, literary and postcolonial studies, media studies, political science, psychology, religious studies, sociology, and interdisciplinary fields including-but not limited to-African-American, Asian-American, and Latin-American Studies and ethnomusicology.
Manuscript Submissions: Authors must submit a digital file (in Microsoft Word) of their manuscript to Prof. Khachig Tölölyan, Editor, Diaspora: A journal of transnational studies, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT 06459-0100 USA. E-mail:
ktololyan@wesleyan.edu
. Because manuscripts will be refereed anonymously, the author's name and all contact information should be on a separate title page. An abstract no longer than one page should accompany the submission.
Manuscript Preparation: Manuscripts should be typewritten with 1" margins on 8˝ by 11" paper. All material must be double-spaced, including citations longer than four lines, which should be indented from the main text; endnotes; works cited; and other extracts, poetry, and figure legends. Sections must be assembled in the following order: title page listing the author's full name and address, telephone, fax, and e-mail numbers, as available; text; works cited; figure legends; endnotes. Acknowledgments should appear as the first, unnumbered endnote. Ordinarily, contributions should not exceed 40 standard pages.
Style: The journal follows the recommendations of the MLA [Modern Languages Association] Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, latest edition. This differs from the citation practice of social science journals in significant ways. The article is followed by sections on "Notes" and "Works Cited." The journal uses no footnotes; endnotes should be used in moderation, and only to provide additional explanation as needed-not to offer bibliographic information. Such information about a cited text is placed in the "Works Cited" section (note, not "Bibliography").
Samples of the format used in "Works Cited":
(1) Books: Gallop, Jane. Reading Lacan. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1985.
(2) Journal articles: Baily, Samuel. "Italians and the Development of Organized Labor in Argentina, Brazil, and the United States, 1880-1914." Journal of Social History 3 (1969): 123-34.
(3) Articles in edited collections: Powell, B.G. "Voting Turnout in Thirty Democracies: Partisan, Legal, and Socio-Economic Influences." Electoral Participation: A Comparative Analysis. Ed. R. Rose. London: Sage, 1990. 5-34.
Endnotes must not be used to provide page references. Rather, in-text citations are annotated parenthetically, and annotations refer only to the author's last name and a page number. Thus, the quotation mark ending a citation will be immediately followed by the source notation, for example (Gallop 23). When more than one work by the same author is used, a short title is added, e.g., (Gallop, Reading 23). All other bibliographic information about such texts is relegated to "Works Cited."
After a manuscript has been accepted for publication, authors must send an up-to-date CV to the Editor.
The journal will publish suitable illustrations in black and white. Photocopies of photographs, in black and white or color, are acceptable for first review, but high-quality glossy prints must accompany the final manuscript. On a separate sheet, a properly keyed legend for each figure must be provided, as well as a digital file of same. Illustrations will be cropped and sized by the publisher as needed.
Authors are responsible for obtaining permission to reprint extracts and reproduce illustrations. Copies of permission forms must be supplied with the final manuscript. All necessary credits and acknowledgments must be included with the figure legends.
All sections of the article should be in a single file, in the order specified in "manuscript preparation." The preferred word-processing software is Microsoft Word, but other mainstream word-processing software may also be used.
The electronic file should be prepared accurately, consistently, and simply, avoiding the use of special fonts or elaborate formatting for aesthetics. Paragraphs should be formatted in the same way throughout. Notes should be typed as embedded endnotes. The lowercase "ell" (l), the numeral one (1), the capital "oh" (O), and the numeral zero (0) should be used correctly, not interchangeably; the lowercase "o" should not be used as a subscript zero. Greek symbols, diacritical marks, italics, superscripts, and subscripts should be typed in the electronic file using software features as much as possible. When a special character cannot be typed in the file, it should be represented by an available character that is not otherwise used, and authors should provide a translation key to those characters in the cover letter. The "footnotes" function of the word-processing software should be used to create the endnotes.
Authors should be aware that an electronic file is considered final material. Substantive changes should not be made during the copy-editing stage following acceptance; the copy-editing process will be facilitated by submission of a carefully prepared manuscript using correct and complete documentation.
Contributors' Copies: Authors of articles and review essays in Diaspora will receive three free copies of the journal issue in which their article appears.
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