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Papers

(The TQCC of Critique-Studies in Contemporary Fiction is 1. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
The Infant Planet and the Iron Sphere: Microcosmic Materiality in Twenty-First-Century Fiction	12
Against Anthropocentrism: A Stray’s Quest in Diane Cook’s The New Wilderness	4
The Poetics of Re-Enchantment: Penelope Fitzgerald’s The Beginning of Spring	4
The Warped Bildung: Parody, Postmodern Gothic, and the Bildungsroman in Iain Banks’s The Wasp Factory	4
Trash, ‘White Trash’ and ‘Wasted Humans’: Racial and Environmental (In)Justice in Tristan Egolf’s Lord of the Barnyard	3
“In the Black Abyss There Appeared a Single Eye”: The Gaze and Self-Fragmentation in The Lord of the Rings	3
Beyond Necropolitics: Colum McCann’sApeirogon	3
Inherent Transgression in the Society of Compulsory Jouissance : Reading Houellebecq’s Platform via Žižek	3
The Right to Development and Self-Help: Faking Entrepreneurship of the Strategic Economic Man in Mohsin Hamid’s How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia	3
Text of (as) the Erotic Sacrament: Erotics in Jeanette Winterson’s Written on the Body and Frankissstein	3
Carter, Porter, Herrera: Overcoming Mythology to Achieve Agency (Sometimes) Effectively	3
Time, Clocks, and Illnesses in Paul Harding’s Tinkers	2
“From Plátano Player to Questioning Chronicler—Historiography in Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”	2
What is Owed to the Ghost? Postmemory and Political Honesty in André Dao’s Anam	2
“I Was A Woman of Appetites, A Growling Beast”: On Subversive Female Hunger in Butter and Milk Fed	2
Subversive Triviality: John Ashbery’s and James Schuyler’s A Nest of Ninnies	2
Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer’s Literary Resistance to Right-Wing Populist Discourse in Grand Hotel Europa (2018)	2
Global Forms in Bolaño’s 2666 : Genre, Race, Capital	2
Refunctioning Western Speculative Genres: Transcultural Autoethnography and Posthuman Futurity in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao	2
The Misanthropocene in California: Susan Straight’s Blacker Than a Thousand Midnights and Joan Didion’s The Last Thing He Wanted	2
Most Alive: Vibrant Taxidermy and Art as Futural Practice in Kristen Arnett’s Mostly Dead Things	2
Holding the Pen: Visions and Revisions of the American South in Sherley Anne Williams’s Dessa Rose	2
Exploring Inherited Shame in Zoë Wicomb’s Playing in the Light	2
Deconstructing and Reconstructing Englishness: National Symbolism of the County House in McEwan’s Atonement	2
“But Karachi is Always Dual”: Cartography, Placemaking, and Identity in Kamila Shamsie’s Kartography	2

Isolation and Connectivity: The Insular Geopolitics in This Earth of Mankind	2
Descent into the Eye (I) of the Kraken: Friday and the Lacanian Real in J. M. Coetzee’s Foe	2
The Cybernetic Leviathan: Body Politic and Body Politics in Heinlein’s Starship Troopers	1
How to Get Away with Murder: Unknowing and Subversion in Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle	1
Ben Lerner’s Novels and the Syntax of Collectivity	1
The Compost of History: Olfactory Aesthetics, Patriarchal Ruin, and the Decolonial Archive in Shani Mootoo’s Cereus Blooms at Night	1
“We’ve Got to Move”: Mapping and Remapping the World in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road	1
Relational Time, Female Transgenerational Bonds and Herstory in Linda Grant’s The Story of the Forest (2023)	1
Eco-Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Planetary Vulnerability in Samantha Harvey’s Orbital (2023)	1
Spectral Dissent: “Faultlines” In Sarah Waters’ The Little Stranger	1
To Be or Not to Be (Human): Black Ontology and Belonging in Beatty and Adjei-Brenyah	1
The Self Turned Inside Out: Neural Networks in Temi Oh’s More Perfect and Justin Cronin’s The Ferryman	1
Environmental Memory, Place Identity, and Solastalgia in Arif Anwar’s The Storm	1
From the Obstructive “Mountain” to the Free “Water”: Examining the Evolution of Transculturalism in Ling Zhang’s Immigrant Narratives	1
Living in Endtimes: Countersentimental Domesticity in the Age of Uncertainty	1
Capitalized Pollution and Inhabitability Critique in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun	1
Motherlands in Europe. Economic Subalternity and Fantasies of Family in Contemporary Romanian Literature of Migration	1
“ Ma semblable, ma soeur ”: Negative Capability and Self-Fashioning in “The Quilt Maker” by Angela Carter and Flights by Olga Tokarczuk	1
Meta-Minstrelsy and Market Logics in Percival Everett’s James	1
Religious Hypocrisy and Moral Failure in James Baldwin’s Go Tell It on the Mountain and Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner	1
Performing Identity: Deconstructing Race and Gender in Brit Bennett’s The Vanishing Half	1
Telling Truth in Fiction: The Precarious Aesthetic of Valeria Luiselli’s Documentary Fiction Lost Children Archive	1
“Why shouldn’t I be wanted, even loved?”: Eugenics, Reproduction, and the Postcolonial in Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People and Nnedi Okorafor’s Who Fears Dea	1
Women Walking in the City: Zadie Smith’s NW	1
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love in the Digital Age: Technology, Intimacy, and Affect in Olivia Sudjic’s Sympathy and Lauren Oyler’s Fake Accoun	1
“When He Comes, He Will Be Like an Englishman”: Space, Spy Fiction, and Englishness in Michael Ondaatje’s Warlight	1
From Other to Posthuman: Meiji’s Journey in Manjula Padmanabhan’s Escape and The Island of Lost Girls	1
Beyond Blah Blah Blah: Climate and Historical Justice in Peter Dimock’s Daybook from Sheep Meadow	1
Ideal Caregiver? Caring Robot and the Dividuation in The School for Good Mothers and Klara and the Sun	1
Homebound: Compromised Petroculture Criticism in American Neoliberal Family Novels	1
A Quivering Ontology: Ali Smith, Hauntology, and Deconstructive Aesthetics	1
Do It Yourself Dystopia: The Digital Future in Dave Eggers’s The Every	1
Beyond Pragmatic Eloquence: Compassion and David Mitchell’s Art of Reading Pain	1
“ I’m a Woman. Man, Woman, M–Woman .” – Identity, Sexuality, and the Body in the Short Fiction of Malika Moustadraf	1
Androdecentrism in the Anthropocene: Weirding Masculinities in the Work of Max Porter, Martin MacInnes, and Matt Hill	1
“Interspecies Empathy and Canine Captivity in Karen Russell’s Short Fiction”	1
Theory (And/Or) Fiction: Academic Writing, Inhuman Horror, and the New Weird in Reza Negarestani’s Cyclonopedia	1
Subjects of Magic: A Comparative Analysis of Postcolonial Magical Realist Texts	1
Memory Writing and Cosmopolitan Identity in Timothy Mo’s Pure	1
Topophrenia and Cognitive Mapping in The Brick People	1
Extracting the Ultradeep Oil: David Mitchell’s The Bone Clocks	1
The Missing Corpse in Contemporary Iraqi Fiction: Ahmed Saadawi’s Frankenstein in Baghdad and Muhsin Al-Ramli’s Daughter of the Tigris	1
Walking as Spatial Practice: Late-Life Growth in the Industrialized Countryside in Rachel Joyce’s The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry	1
Chaos, Cosmos, and Waste: The Politics of “Maximalism” in Don DeLillo’s Underworld	1
“Change, Change All the Time”: Loss and Re-Creation of Former Homes in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Novels	1
Literary Setting and Social Form in Tash Aw’s We, the Survivors	1
Arboreal Obliquity or Trees Doing the Human in Murray Bail’s Eucalyptus	1
“We’re All Just Playing into Stories Created Before Our Time”: Fictional Female Serial Killers, Femgore, and the Illusion of Power	1
Faux Apparitions: Angels or Cannibals, Between Coetzee and Defoe	1
Rescuing Precarious Bodies: Biopolitics and Haitian Health in Edwidge Danticat’s Diasporic Writing	1

Cohesion, Exile, Return: Non-Human Narrative and the Shape of Diaspora Community in Never Let Me Go	1
The Failure of Imagination and its Redemption: John Banville‘s The Book of Evidence	1
“Fucked in the Head and Liking It”: Atomik Aztex , Postcoloniality, Psychosis of Civilization	1
‘‘A Soul in Every Stone’’: Object-Worlds and Hysterical Detail in Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow	1
“The Lurid and the Lovely”: Degrees of Disillusionment and Existential Awakening in Thomas Ligotti’s Cosmic Horror	1
Tension Between Embodied Structures and the Pursuit of Change: Exploring the Metaphysical Underpinnings of Olga Tokarczuk’s Flights	1
Faulty Power in the Faculty Tower: James Hynes’s The Lecturer’s Tale as a Parody of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth	1
Undocumenting Citizenship: Mixed-Status Families in María Escandón’s González and Daughter Trucking Co	1
The Short Autofictions of Eve Babitz, Lucia Berlin and Bette Howland	1