AmeriQuests: Displacement and Relocation in the Americas

AmeriQuests is a peer-reviewed multi and inter-disciplinary journal devoted to issues relating to migration, displacement and crossing borders within and throughout the Americas, and to the legal and fictional stories told by and about the people who undertake or are forced into these quests across different borders and states (geographical, psychological, and social). AmeriQuests is part of the work undertaken at Vanderbilt University’s new Center for the Americas, so this journal will consider articles written about quests undertaken within or through South America, Central America, Mexico, the US and Canada, and upon issues relating to the in the humanities, the social sciences, law and medicine.

Papers are accepted on an on-going basis throughout the year.

The first issue of AmeriQuests is in production, and proposed manuscripts (1-30 pages) are presently being adjudicated.

We are now accepting submissions, 1-40 pages, for an open issue which are due on or before 1 October, 2004, to:

Professor Robert Barsky, Editor

AmeriQuests

Department of French and Italian; Program in Comparative Literature

PO Box 6312, Station B

Nashville TN 37235-0001

phone: (615) 322-2652

fax: (615) 343-6909

e-mail: robert.barsky@vanderbilt.edu