The Journal of Commonwealth Literature

*The Journal of Commonwealth Literature*
Discipline	Literature
Language	English
by	Claire Chambers, Susan Watkins
Publication details
History	1966-present
Publisher	SAGE Publications
Frequency	Quarterly
Standard abbreviations;
ISO 4	J. Commonw. Lit.
Indexing;
ISSN	0021-9894;
LCCN	65009987
OCLC no.	47091524
Links
	Journal homepage; Online access; Online archive;

The Journal of Commonwealth Literature (JCL) is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal that covers the field of literature, especially Commonwealth and postcolonial literatures, including colonial discourse and translational studies. The journal's are Claire Chambers (University of York) and Rachael Gilmour (Queen Mary University of London).

It was established in 1966 by Norman Jeffares and Arthur Ravenscroft at Heinemann.^[1]^[2] In 1970, JCL began being published by Oxford University Press. Hanz Zell became the publisher of JCL in 1979.^[3] Zell was acquired by K. G. Saur Verlag the following year.^[4] After Saur was acquired by Reed International in 1987, its British division was merged with the British holdings of sister publisher R. R. Bowker to form Bowker-Saur. Cambridge Information Group acquired Bowker-Saur in 2001.^[5] JCL has been published by SAGE Publications since 2003.

Abstracting and indexing

The Journal of Commonwealth Literature is abstracted and indexed in:

^ A. Norman Jeffares, 'Arthur Ravenscroft, 1924 – 1989', The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 24 (1989), vii–ix, doi:10.1177/002198948902400102.
^ Low, Gail (2015-09-01). "Professing the common wealth of literature, Leeds 1957–1969". The Journal of Commonwealth Literature. 50 (3): 267–281. doi:10.1177/0021989415589356. ISSN 0021-9894. S2CID 146529563. Retrieved 2022-07-12.
^ McLeod, John (2015-09-01). "The Journal of Commonwealth Literature in the 1970s". The Journal of Commonwealth Literature. 50 (3): 282–296. doi:10.1177/0021989415594653. ISSN 0021-9894. S2CID 146326915. Retrieved 2022-07-12.
^ "Hans Zell Publishing, A Short History". Retrieved 2022-07-12.
^ "Cambridge Information Group Acquires R.R. Bowker". Library Technology Guides. 2001-08-31. Retrieved 2020-08-16.