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AmeriQuests
AmeriQuests: Displacement and Relocation in the Americas

AmeriQuests->

----------------->The Journal of the Center for the Americas

 

AmeriQuests is a peer-reviewed multi and inter-disciplinary journal which will discuss issues relating to dislocation, relocation, migration, displacement, refugees, homelessness, crossing borders, storytelling, narrative analysis, multiculturalism, ethnic literatures, postcolonial studies and anthropology -- throughout the Americas. Given that state or legal intervention in these quests is generally contingent upon some kind of oral or written application or testimony, AmeriQuests places a strong emphasis placed upon the stories told by and about the people who embark upon, or are forced into, these quests, implicating research into such areas as life stories, storytelling, confession, translation, and the literature/law relationship.

 

AmeriQuests is the official journal of Vanderbilt University’s new Center for the Americas, so we will consider articles written about quests undertaken within or through South America, Central America, Mexico, the Caribbean, the US and Canada/Québec, and upon issues relating to the crossing of borders as people move from one state to another. These “states” can be geographical, psychological, and social, so AmeriQuests will foster and promote strong work within and between departments and disciplines in the humanities, the social sciences, law and medicine. A quest for America can also be a personal ambition, illustrated by John Donne’s description of America in the poem "To His Mistris Going to Bed":

 

Licence my roaving hands, and let them go,
Behind, before, above, between, below.
O my America! my new-found-land,
My kingdome, safeliest when with one man man'd
 

This idea of an "america" as a desireable space is captured in the OED definition, which describes America as “a place which one longs to reach; an ultimate or idealized destination or aim; an object of personal ambition or desire”.

 

 
Access the on-line journal AmeriQuests

The first issue of AmeriQuests has been published! Free access at:

http://ejournals.library.vanderbilt.edu/ameriquests/index.php
Call for Papers
Call for Papers for Volume 1, number 1 (2004)   •  Call for Papers for Volume 1, number 2 (2004)   •  Call for Papers for Volume 2, number 1 (2005)   •  Call for Papers for Volume 2, number 2 (2005)   •  Call for Papers for Volume 3, number 1 (2006)   •  Call for Papers for Volume 3, number 2 (2006)  
 
Editorial Information

co-Editors

Robert F. Barsky (Comparative Literature; French and Italian, Vanderbilt, robert.barsky@vanderbilt.edu)

Vera Kutzinski (Center for the Americas, Vanderbilt, vera.kutzinski@vanderbilt.edu)

 

Board of Editors

Vilashini Cooppan (Comparative Literature, Yale, vilashini.cooppan@yale.edu)

Earl Fitz (Comparative Literature, Latin American Studies, Vanderbilt, earl.e.fitz@vanderbilt.edu)

Patricia Foxen (Anthropology, Vanderbilt, patricia.foxen@vanderbilt.edu)

Julius Grey (Law, McGill, julius.grey@sympatico.ca)

Denise Helly (INRS, Quebec, denise_Helly@inrs-UCS.uquebec.ca)

Michael Holquist (Comparative Literature, Slavic Studies, Yale, michael.holquist@yale.edu)

Jane Landers (History, Vanderbilt, jane.landers@vanderbilt.edu)

Beverly Moran (Law and Sociology, Vanderbilt, beverly.moran@vanderbilt.edu)

Olga Odgers (Estudios Sociales, Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Mexico, odgerso@minitel.net)

George Szanto (emeritus Communications; Comparative Literature, McGill, gszanto@aol.com)

 

Board of Consultants

John Amastae, (Director, Center for Inter-Americana and Border Studies, University of Texas at El Paso, jamastae@utep.edu)

Manuel Ángel Castillo (Centro de Estudios Demográficos y de Desarrollo Urbano, El Colegio de México, castillo@colmex.mx)

Daniel Cornfield (Director, VIPPS, Professor, Department of Sociology, Vanderbilt University, daniel.b.cornfield@vanderbilt.edu)
David P. Forsythe (Political Science, U of Nebraska, dforsythe1@unl.edu)

David Theo Goldberg (Director, UC Humanities Research Institute; African American Studies, UC Irvine, goldberg@uci.edu)

Kirsten Silva Gruesz (Literature, UC Santa Cruz, ksgruesz@ucsc.edu)

Percy Hintzen, (African American Studies, Berkeley, phintzen@uclink4.berkeley.edu)

Norma Klahn, (Literature and Latin American and Latino Studies, UCSC nklahn@ucsc.edu)

Joseph Nevins (Geography, Vassar, jonevins@vassar.edu)

Patricia Pessar (Latin American Studies, Yale, patricia.pessar@yale.edu)

Virginia Scott (French and Italian, Vanderbilt, virginia.scott@vanderbilt.edu)

Ronnie Steinberg (Sociology, Vanderbilt, ronnie.j.steinberg@vanderbilt.edu)

For more information, please contact Robert F. Barsky.
copyright Robert F. Barsky, 2006