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Kritika Kultura


Kritika Kultura is the semi-annual peer-reviewed international electronic journal of literary, language and cultural studies of the Department of English of the Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines. It touts itself as "a pioneering academic electronic journal in the Philippines" and "the only academic e-journal of its kind in the Philippines today." The journal is also known as KK.

Kritika Kultura has been selected for coverage in the Elsevier Bibliographic Database (EBD) effective 2009. According to EBD, the selection is "in recognition of its high quality and relevance to the scientific community." With this selection, KK is indexed in Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed research literature and quality web sources. The Modern Language Association indexed the journal on January 17, 2008. The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), which also indexed the jornal, lists down its publication details.

Kritika Kultura's ISSN is 1656152X. Its subject matter mostly revolves around topics under languages and literatures. It was founded in 2002 and is published in English by the Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines. Keywords include: Philippine literary studies, cultural studies.

The issues and topics covered by the journal are described by anglistikguide.de as "an attempt to respond to the needs of the globalizing world of the academe in general and of Philippine society in particular." The journal addresses "issues relevant to the 21st century within these disciplines even as addressing those same issues would have to be precisely about crossing the very borders of these disciplines: language and literature and cultural policy, cultural politics of representation, the political economy of language, literature and culture, the production of cultural texts, audience reception, systems of representation, effects of texts on concrete readers/audiences, the history and dynamics of canon formation, gender and sexuality, ethnicity, diaspora, Philippine nationalism and nationhood, national liberation movements, identity politics, feminism, women's liberation movements, etc."


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