OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Comparative Literature is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Africa, China, and the Global South Novel: In Koli Jean Bofane’sCongo Inc.	6
Speaking of Babel: The Risks and Rewards of Writing about Polyglot Societies	4
Asia Rising Is an Imperial Fiction: A View from the Indian Ocean	2
How Shall We Let This Text, or Anything, Teach Us?	2
Creole Indias, Creolizing Pondicherry: Ari Gautier’sLe thinnaias the Archipelago of Fragments	1
The Mythic Sea in Contemporary Irish and Caribbean Poetry	1
Impasse? What Impasse?	1
Thalassological Worldmaking and Literary Circularities in the Indian Ocean	1
An Intimate “Range of Elsewhere”: Sensuous Imaginaries of the Indian Ocean in Precolonial Swahili Poetry	1
Historicist Cosmopolitanism from Scandinavia’s First Novel	1
Ethics before Comparison	1
The Native in Comparative Literature	1
Impasse as a Figure of Political Space	1
How Not to Read like a Victorian: Reimagining Bankim’s Reader in Nineteenth-Century Bengali Novels	0
Plausible Intimacies	0
Civilizational Myth and Class Politics	0
The Long Endless Railroads, the Blowing of Winds, and the Invention of the Hebrew Mood	0
Object Orientations and Circulatory Form in Abdulrazak Gurnah’sBy the Sea	0
Forms of Disappointment: Cuban and Angolan Narrative after the Cold War	0
Colonial al-Andalus: Spain and the Making of Modern Moroccan Culture	0
The Arabic Prose Poem: Theory and Practice	0
The World’s Literatures	0
“The Finest Men We Have Ever Seen”: Jefferson, the Osages, and the Mirror of Nativism	0
Obscene Textures: The Erotics of Disgust in the Writings of Ismat Chughtai	0
The Poetics of Protest, from Africa to Minneapolis	0

The Border Underground: Indigenous Cosmovisions in the Migration Narratives of Leslie Marmon Silko and Yuri Herrera	0
“The Chalk Wall Falls to the Foam”: Reimagining Littoral Space in the Poetry of the Dover Cliffs	0
Nancy Cunard and the 1930s Coalitional Anthology	0
To Africanize Spain: Twentieth-Century Spanish Poetry and the Persistent Forms of al-Andalus	0
Suspicious Gifts and Speculative Translations: Colonial and Semicolonial Encounters between English and Persian	0
Gained in Translation: Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s Soviet Travels	0
“My Unwritten Novel”: The Long Poems of Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh between Genre and Form	0
“Enter Ghost of Goethe”: Comparison and Indigenous Literary Studies in the Pacific	0
“English like Hindi”: Chetan Bhagat, Popular Fiction, and India’s Voice	0
Introduction	0
The Rendezvous of Victory: Translations of Bandung Humanism	0
“Mine from ’33; Yours from ’41”	0
Under the Sign of Ariel: Disputed Territories, Rising Tides, and Literary Mauritius	0
Transported Memories: How “I Remember” Poetry Became an International Form	0
On the Translatability of Cultural Phenomena: Modernismo and Modernism within and without Mass Culture	0
Knowing and Not Knowing	0
Rethinking Diaspora through Borders: Contemporary Somali Literature in English and Italian	0
Impassivities: From Paradise Lost to Hellas	0
Postindustrial Waterfront Redevelopment and the Politics of Historical Memory	0
Imperfect Solidarities: Tagore, Gandhi, Du Bois, and the Global Anglophone	0
Afterword: The Littoral Museum of the Twenty-First Century	0
An Archipelagic Node in Global Migration? The Stakes of Comparison and Irony in Nathacha Appanah’s Tropique de la violence	0
The Ghazal as “World Poetry”: Between Worlding and Vernacularization	0
Ethnoracial Utopianism and Speculative Aesthetics after the End of History	0
“Can the Concept of God Exist in a Perfectly Logical Language?” Baraka, Wittgenstein, and the Hermeneutics of Counter-Enlightenment	0
Decolonizing US Comparative Literature: The 2022 ACLA Presidential Address	0
Translating Line Breaks: A View from Persian Poetics	0
Forms of Poetic Attention	0
Vâlâ Nureddin’s Comic Materialism and the Sexual Revolution: Writing across Turkey and the Soviet Union	0
Oil, Water, World, Wax, Mind: Jean Rolin’sOrmuz	0
Epic Futurity: The Phaeacians, Carthage, and the Tradition	0
Bombay Hustle: Making Movies in a Colonial CityRelaying Cinema in Midcentury Iran: Material Cultures in TransitJaponisme and the Birth of Cinema	0
“Limitless Black Resonance”: The Grotesque Sonority of Dambudzo Marechera and Sony Labou Tansi	0
Jug Songs: Acoustic Enclosure from Ovid to Eliot	0
The Afterlives of Odette and Albertine in Lolita’s Final Chapters	0
From Hampstead to Buenos Aires and Beyond: Anticipating Worlds in Julio Cortázar’s Imagen de John Keats	0
Northeast Indian or Assamese	0
“Je est un autre”: Beckett’sNot I, Rimbaud, and Synesthesia	0
Impasse, Promise, and Impossible Community: Blanchot’s Community of Lovers and Kleist’sMichael Kohlhaas	0
Schopenhauer in Dante’s Garden of Eden: Melancholy and Rubén Darío’s “Autumnal”	0
A Loose Yet Effective Link: Some Creative Aspects of Comparative Literature	0
At the Edges of Unmeeting: Geometries of Sea and Land in Marianne Moore’s Seascapes	0
Empathy in Post-Oslo Palestinian Literature: Reading between Identification and Recognition in Ala Hlehel’s Au Revoir Acre and Ibtisam Azem’s The Book of Disappearance	0
En passant	0
Pleasure’s Swerve: Philology among Lucretius, Derrida, and Deleuze	0
Paul de Man’s Flemish	0
Two Aspects of Language, Two Types of Comparison	0
World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth: Anticolonial Aesthetics, Postcolonial Politics	0
That Anti-racist Feeling	0
The Politics of Plagiarism	0

Nothing to Say but the Unsayable: How Locke’s Linguistic Functionalism Turned into Leopardi’s Analogical Language	0
Decolonizing Memory: Algeria and the Politics of Testimony	0
The Geopolitics of Comparing and Representing the Other	0
The Strange and the Familiar in theThousand and One Nights	0
Of No Moment	0
Guantánamo, Cuba: Poetry and Prison on Divided Ground	0
Mimesis and Mythos in Aristotelian Arabic Poetics	0
Translation as Conversion: Richard Wilhelm’s Bekehrung and the Bekehrter	0
The Architectonics of Hope: Fragments of Life and Text in Walter Benjamin and Hart Crane	0
Salīm Barakāt’s Weird Ecology	0
Cotton Mather’s Spanish Lessons: A Story of Language, Race, and Belonging in the Early Americas	0
Geopolitics of Comparison: World LiteratureAvant la Lettre	0
Our Civilizing Mission: The Lessons of Colonial Education	0
Constraint against Constraint: Hunger Strikes and the Score	0
On Borges’s B/baroque	0
Rebuilding a Profession: A Bibliometric Analysis of the Linguistic Culture of Comparative Literature in the United States and Spain	0
Serial Forms: The Unfinished Project of Modernity, 1815–1848	0
Translating Race on the French Stage	0
Intimate Foreign Relations	0
At the Shores of Work	0
Chinese Folklore for the English Public: Herbert A. Giles’s 1880 Translation of Pu Songling’s Classical Tales	0
Introduction	0
Cross-Revolutionary Reading: Visions of Vietnam in the Transnational Arab Avant-Garde	0
Inter-imperiality: Vying Empires, Gendered Labor, and the Literary Arts of Alliance	0
Living Arrangements: Mise-en-scène and the Nouveau Roman in the Fiction of Ann Quin	0
Passing Impasse	0
“Ludicrous Anachronisms”	0
The Trans-Indigenous Lens: A Re-recognition	0
Indian Ocean Narratives, Tidalectics, and Perth’s Centre for Stories	0
The Spatiality of Poverty in Modern Chinese Realism	0
A Different Order of Difficulty: Literature after Wittgenstein	0
Beaches and Ports	0
The African Novel of Ideas: Philosophy and Individualism in the Age of Global Writing	0
Hebrew Gothic: History and the Poetics of Persecution	0
Pasolini in/and Catalonia: Translation, Minority Languages, and Internationalism	0
From Internationalism to Postcolonialism: Literature and Cinema Between the Second and Third Worlds	0
Inflecting the French	0
Ambiguous Aggression in German Realism and Beyond: Flirtation, Passive Aggression, Domestic Violence	0
Plagiarism and Authorship in Turn-of-the-Century Venezuela	0
Lolita in Humbert Humbert’s Camera Obscura and Lolita in Vladimir Nabokov’s Camera Lucida	0
Russia’s Radical Byron: Reexamining the “Decembrist Pushkin”	0
Growing Old in Yiddish Modernism: The Case of the Young Yankev Glatshteyn	0
Fugitive Archives: Translation, Sea, and History in Indian Ocean Fiction	0
Textimony: The Grammar of Atrocity	0
Poetry and the Camp: Epiphanic Witness and Ecstatic Cry in the Spanish-Cuban-American War of 1895–98	0