Its journey along time and space represents not only the process of consolidation of an academic journal whose first publication was back in 1979 as "A Journal of Criticism Centering Around the Invisible Generation", but also the mapping of a culturally marked space that shows the value of transnational partnership among scholars in a connected world. Along time, the journal has had a double mission: to think critically about cultural production within the Anglophone world, and to offer to its readers state-of-the-art bilingual research in English Language, Literatures in English, and Cultural Studies originating in different local, national and transnational contexts, collecting and making available work by scholars from all over Brazil and worldwide. Ilha do Desterro is available in a range of international electronic databases, such as SCOPUS,
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