Focus and Scope

This journal appears three times each year. It includes calls for papers, book review features, interviews and documentary sources relevant to Gothic, Fantastic and Weird Fiction studies, according to the Presentation of the Journal. Abusões publishes contributions in seven languages: Portuguese, Galician, Spanish, French, Italian, English and German by both established scholars and graduate students.

 

Priority in publication will be given to:

1 - Doctors, members of the faculty of a Graduate Program 

2 - Doctors, members of the faculty of any Program

3 - Doctors who do not fit in the above-mentioned categories

4 - PhD Students/Candidates

5 - MA Students, co-authoring with their supervisor

6 - Undergraduate students receiving undergraduate research grants, co-authoring with their supervisor

7- Masters;

8- MA Students.

 

Note: Special cases will be evaluated individually by the Editorial Board.

Peer Review Process

The Editorial Board evaluates manuscripts with regard to the importance, scope and adequacy to the journal’s requirements. After this first evaluation, the Editorial Board will submit the papers to the reviewers (members of the Scientific Board or ad hoc consultants) to issue an opinion in appropriate electronic form.

All manuscripts submitted to Abusões are read anonymously by two readers. A third reader may be brought in, should agreement not be reached by the original reviewers.

Book reviews, interviews and other manuscripts should not be submitted to the reviewers, and will be evaluated only by the Editorial Board.

Publication Frequency

Three times each year. On April, August and December.

Open Access Policy

The journal operates on Open Access Policies (OAP) granting free access to scientific information and supporting the democratization of knowledge.

Presentation of the Journal

The Arts of Abusion: misconceptions; illusions and deceptions; superstitions; spells; incantations; witchcraft. Abusões is a peer-reviewed academic journal devoted to the study of all the Fictions that escape the definition of the real. This journal is the result of a partnership between two research groups certified by Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ) and registered in the Directory of Groups of the National Council of Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) — Nós do Insólito: Vertentes da Ficção, da Teoria e da Crítica and Estudos do Gótico.

The potential of this field of studies in Brazilian universities is demonstrated by the emergence and consolidation in recent years of several research groups, such as Vertentes do Fantástico na Literatura (UNESP), Espacialidades Artísticas (UFU), Língua e Literatura: Interdisciplinaridade e Docência (UNIFESP) and Narrativa e Insólito (UFU), together with our two research groups at UERJ, part of the work group of the National Association of Graduate Studies and Research in Literature and Linguistic (ANPOLL) — Vertentes do Insólito Ficcional.

 

Examining the intersections between the Weird, the Gothic, the Fantastic, the Uncanny, the Marvelous, the Supernatural, this journal provides an opportunity to read scholarship from a wide variety of perspectives, informing and stimulating specialists and anyone interested in the field.