Literal (magazine)
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| Founder & Director | Rose Mary Salyum |
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| Categories | Academic journals |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| First issue | 2004 |
| Country |  United States Mexico Canada |
| Language | English Spanish |
| Website | [1] |
| ISSN | 1551-6962 |
Literal Magazine (originally Latin American Voices) is quarterly academic journal focusing upon art, architecture, literature, politics, writers, intellectualism and current world events. It is generally perceived as upscale and more sophisticated than other magazines on the same category, and publishes most of its articles in both English and Spanish. Literal Magazine does not publish academic articles by request, but those that are decided by the magazine editors after an exhaustive research on whether if the article topic is or is not true.
Literal, as it is commonly known, was launched in 2004 on a very reduced scale, in order to measure its repercussion. "Literal" intellectual status reduces its target to a very small percentage of population, usually reaching faculty professors and students (being distributed in many colleges' libraries), expert architects, painters and writers, as well as politicians that often collaborate with their own original articles.
A major success was soon percieved. Critics named it one-of-a-kind because of its bilingual status and intellectual target. "Literal", winner of 2 CELJ Awards and three Lone Star Awards, offers its pages with a dual purpose: as a forum where the most important Latin American creative expressions converge and as a vehicle for the expression of new voices.
Thus Literal provides a medium for the critique and diffusion of the Latin American literature and art, recognizing its potential strength as a point of departure for understanding that the broad cultural universe is not overshadowed by any single language, but is bathed in the light of a unified spirit.
Chief Editors
- Rose Mary Salum
- David Medina Portillo
Assitant editors
- Wendolyn Lozano Tovar
- Raquel Velasco
- Marc Perelló
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