OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of English Studies in Africa 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Subtlety, Understatement and Omission in The Lord of the Rings	6
Introduction: Damon Galgut’s The Promise and the Booker Prize Double Bind	5
Intersex Bodies, Literary Representation and Cultural Intersectionality: Gender Bounding Violence in An Ordinary Wonder (2021)	5
A Response	5
Uncanny Times: The Case of Eugene de Kock	4
Wopko Jensma: An Ebullient, Reckless Spender of Words	4
The Arrival from Abroad: Train Travel and Mobile Ideas of Race in Pre-Apartheid South African Literature	3
‘The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth’: The Anthropomorphism of Earth and Proleptic Ecological Mourning in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road (2006)	3
Travel, Transcendence, and Missed Opportunity: Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac in Africa	3
Betty Molteno and the Creation of a South African Nineteenth-Century Lesbian Discourse	3
‘For a Further Union’: Conceptions of Unity in the Later W.B. Yeats and T.S. Eliot	3
Public Transport in Pre-Apartheid Literary Johannesburg: Between Progress and Oppression	3
Street Art and the Reconfiguration of Civic Advocacy in Nairobi City	2
Amorous Materialism: Jousting with Courtly Love in Wole Soyinka’s The Interpreters	2
On Editing South African Fiction	2
Introduction: Moving Publicly, Writing Mobility: Public Transport in African Literatures	2
Transportation and Agon in Chinua Achebe’s No Longer at Ease and Anthills of the Savannah	2
A Watery Umwelt: Intercorporeal Currents in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves and Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s Philosophy	2
Claire Keegan’s Small Things Like These (2021) as an Existentialist Fable	2
Journeying through Nairobi: Mapping the City through Prize-Winning Stories	2
‘To oppose and to give to one another without sacrificing themselves’: Gifts in Damon Galgut’s The Promise	2
‘[A] Sad Understanding’: Reading Compassion in J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace and Jack Kerouac’s Desolation Angels	2
Relational Resilience in The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After and Call Me American: A Memoir	2
Sekhmet and the Shaman: Extinction, Ferality and Trans-species Connections in Henrietta Rose-Innes’ Green Lion	1
Literary Encounters: The Beat Generation, Poland and South Africa, 1948–1968	1

The Invisible African Beat: Beatifying Mohammed Mrabet	1
Sinclair Beiles Beyond Minutes to Go	1
Their Galgut, Our Galgut: A Complimentary Rant on the Booker Prize	1
Yvonne Vera’s Ode to the Shebeen Queen: Butterfly Burning ’s Deliwe	1
The Modern Tragic Animal in the Zoo: A Zoocritical Reading of The Hairy Ape	1
Acting Across Diaspora: Transnational Spaces and Voices in Hala Alyan’s The Arsonists’ City	1
In Poland, or Elsewhere: Cartographies of Central European Anti-Ecumene in Isaac Bashevis Singer’s The King of the Fields and Dan Jacobson’s	1
White Moral Projects and the Impossibility of Racial Repair: A Reflection on White Shame and Black (Dis)Inheritance in Damon Galgut’s The Promise	0
Within the Landscape: A Postcolonial Ecocritical Reading of Yvonne Vera’s Butterfly Burning	0
Elemental Humanity in Bessie Head’s When Rain Clouds Gather	0
The House as a Cognitive Space: Memory, Identity and Belonging in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Gravel Heart	0
‘I knew her, Horatio’: Legacies of Shakespearean Performance in South Africa	0
Gods for Sale: Religious Appropriation and Capitalism in Okey Ndibe’s Foreign Gods Inc .	0
The Boda Boda (R)age: Economies of Affection in the Motorbike Taxis of Kenya	0
Suffering and Greatness: Metaphor, Will and Self-reference in The Flying Dutchman	0
Hydropolitical Textualities	0
Correction	0
Ted Joans Guides You to Africa	0
‘We are actually here’: Refusing Erasure in Amiri Baraka’s Dutchman and ‘We Are Here’	0
Dan Wylie’s Poetry and a New Default Discourse for the Earth	0
‘I will not eat with you’: Shylock and the Value of Vegetarianism in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice (1598)	0
Notes on Contributors	0
‘The weight of our history is very heavy’: An Interview with Bertrand d’Espaignet, by Sraddha Shivani Rajkomar	0
Kampala’s Gendered (Im)possibilities in Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi’s Kintu (2014) and The First Woman (202	0
Saying the Unsayable: A Reading of Mafika Gwala’s Jive Poetics	0
Thoreau’s Confucian Translation, Non-Cultivation and Eco-Dao Poetics	0
The Beats and Beiles in Tangier: A Literary Historical Examination	0
Imagining African Public Spaces: Justice, Identity and National Anxieties in Late-Sixteenth- and Early-Seventeenth-Century English Drama	0
A Piece of My Self: The ‘Wound’ in the Writing of Richard Ford	0
Brand Recognition: Damon Galgut’s The Promise as National Allegory Plus	0
Cooking Your Goose: Chaucer’s Food and the Realist Mode	0
The Limits of Hydro-modernity: A Hydro-critical Reading of Kariba Dam in Selected Texts	0
Back to ‘the Future-Sign Tree’: A Comparative Reading of Amos Tutuola’s My Life in the Bush of Ghosts and Kindred	0
‘These Super People’: The Superimposition of Ted Hughes’ ‘Brasilia’ on Sylvia Plath’s ‘Brasilia’	0
Bringing a Canon to a Knife-fight – Phenomenological Ethics and Metaphor in Haruki Murakami’s Killing Commendatore	0
Archipelagic Modernity and Errant Memory in Bertrand d’Espaignet’s La République des Bâtards	0
‘I got my things and left’: Situating Dambudzo Marechera within the Beat Literary Tradition	0
I Guard Your Memory: Ted Joans, Africa, Afrodisia	0
Reading Resistance in Damon Galgut’s The Promise : An Analysis of Narrative Perspective	0
‘Stories have to be told or they die’: A Critique of the Essentialist Paradigms of Female Genital Mutilation and Religion in Nawal El Saadawi’s Woman at Point Zero (1977	0
‘[T]o Make us Complete as Human Beings’: Soil as the Bedrock of Collected Memories in Niq Mhlongo’s Paradise in Gaza	0
Making Kin?: Creation and Monstrosity in Mohale Mashigo’s ‘Little Vultures’ (2018)	0
Exploring Institutionalized Oppression in The Book of Not (2006)	0
Introduction	0
‘Is it a family saga or a farm novel?’ Reading Damon Galgut’s The Promise as a Foil for Metonymic Dispossession and Restitution in the Contemporary South African (Im)mor	0
‘Good’ South African Literature: The Booker Prize, its Infatuation with the Postcolonial and Damon Galgut’s The Promise	0
Racialized Railway Mobilities: Repression and Resistance in the Anglophone South African Short Story During the Drum Decade	0
Correction	0
Deadly Journeys: Thabo Jijana’s Nobody’s Business , the Minibus Taxi Industry, and the Racial Politics of Mobility in Post-Apartheid South Africa	0
Nairobi Street-Aesthetics: Distance and Proximity in the Aesthetics of Everyday Life in the Green City	0

Against Indifference: Lyric Documentation in Khaled Mattawa’s Mare Nostrum (2019)	0
Mobility and Public Transport in Post-independence Mozambican Fiction (1992-2022)	0
Glimpses of Lagos Through Vehicle Windows: The Motorized Returnee and Transient ‘Home’ in Teju Cole’s Every Day is for the Thief	0
The Desiring Girl in South African Young Adult Fiction	0
Preface	0
The Sea and Underwater Transport in Imraan Coovadia’s The Institute for Taxi Poetry	0
Ways of Being: Water Spirits in Mia Couto’s Sleepwalking Land (1992)	0