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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Dust Explodes for All to See: Narrating the Actual in a Time of Continuous Disaster	3
Subtlety, Understatement and Omission in The Lord of the Rings	3
Notes on Contributors	3
Two Poems by Leanne Stillerman Zabow	3
‘I Am Powerful’: Agency, Autonomy and Audacity in Sefi Atta’sA Bit of Difference	3
Modernisms and Modernities in Achebe’sThings Fall Apart	2
Introduction: Damon Galgut’s The Promise and the Booker Prize Double Bind	2
COVID-19 and African Postage Stamps	2
Uncanny Times: The Case of Eugene de Kock	2
A Response	2
Millenarian Modernism in H. I. E. Dhlomo’sThe Girl who Killed to Save	2
Literary Encounters: The Beat Generation, Poland and South Africa, 1948–1968	1
Memory Book as a New Genre of Illness Writing: How a Ugandan Mother Wrote about HIV	1
Green Dream	1
Sonification and Music: Science meets Art	1
Journeying through Nairobi: Mapping the City through Prize-Winning Stories	1
Betty Molteno and the Creation of a South African Nineteenth-Century Lesbian Discourse	1
Street Art and the Reconfiguration of Civic Advocacy in Nairobi City	1
Self/Isolation	1
Formula in the Praise Chants of Chief Adolphus Munamuna,Ọụbẹbẹ Kẹnị Ịzọn Ibe(The Chief Oral Poet of the Ịzọn Nation)	1
Masked Masterpieces: in R≡lational Folds	1
Hero	1
Acting Across Diaspora: Transnational Spaces and Voices in Hala Alyan’s The Arsonists’ City	1
“Black Hamlet”	1
Re-imagining a New Normal: COVID-19 Pandemic and the Changing Face of Social Interaction	1

Public Transport in Pre-Apartheid Literary Johannesburg: Between Progress and Oppression	1
Introduction: Moving Publicly, Writing Mobility: Public Transport in African Literatures	1
Relational Resilience in The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After and Call Me American: A Memoir	1
From the Politics of Forgetting to the Ethics of Remembering: The Postcolonial Sublime in J. M. Coetzee’sWaiting for the Barbarians	1
‘Home is Another Country’: A Foucauldian Reading of Sisonke Msimang’s Always Another Country	1
Towards a Poetics of Disaster: Chinese Poetry in Combatting COVID-19	1
Sekhmet and the Shaman: Extinction, Ferality and Trans-species Connections in Henrietta Rose-Innes’ Green Lion	1
Their Galgut, Our Galgut: A Complimentary Rant on the Booker Prize	1
An End in Itself: Genre, Apocalypse and the Archive in Deon Meyer’s Fever	1
Transportation and Agon in Chinua Achebe’s No Longer at Ease and Anthills of the Savannah	1
‘For a Further Union’: Conceptions of Unity in the Later W.B. Yeats and T.S. Eliot	1
The Arrival from Abroad: Train Travel and Mobile Ideas of Race in Pre-Apartheid South African Literature	1
Paying Homage to Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway: Revision and Reversion in Fiona Melrose’s Johannesburg	1
The Modern Tragic Animal in the Zoo: A Zoocritical Reading of The Hairy Ape	1
Plague and Cultural Panic: Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Masque of the Red Death’	1
Within the Landscape: A Postcolonial Ecocritical Reading of Yvonne Vera’s Butterfly Burning	1
The Plague Years: An Introduction	0
Introduction: South African and African Modernism – Beyond a Century, Beyond the Provisional	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
Deadly Journeys: Thabo Jijana’s Nobody’s Business , the Minibus Taxi Industry, and the Racial Politics of Mobility in Post-Apartheid South Africa	0
Notes on Contributors	0
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
Correction	0
Black Hamlet: A Script in Search of a Stage	0
Will the COVID-19 Crisis Lead to a Fourth Wave of Neo-nationalism?	0
Racialized Railway Mobilities: Repression and Resistance in the Anglophone South African Short Story During the Drum Decade	0
The Boda Boda (R)age: Economies of Affection in the Motorbike Taxis of Kenya	0
Some Speculative Musings on COVID-19 Affectivity, Raymond Williams’ ‘Structure of Feeling’ and Zadie Smith’s Intimations	0
Cooking Your Goose: Chaucer’s Food and the Realist Mode	0
Hydropolitical Textualities	0
Plagues in Palimpsest: Historical Time and Narrative Time in Diane Awerbuck’s Home Remedies, Marcus Low’s Asylum and Russel Brownlee’s Garden of the Plagues	0
A Piece of My Self: The ‘Wound’ in the Writing of Richard Ford	0
Suffering and Greatness: Metaphor, Will and Self-reference in The Flying Dutchman	0
Exploring Institutionalized Oppression in The Book of Not (2006)	0
Reading Resistance in Damon Galgut’s The Promise : An Analysis of Narrative Perspective	0
The Limits of Hydro-modernity: A Hydro-critical Reading of Kariba Dam in Selected Texts	0
Correction	0
Notes on Contributors	0
Criteria of Embarrassment: J.M. Coetzee’s ‘Jesus Trilogy’ and the Legacy of Modernist Difficulty	0
Dan Wylie’s Poetry and a New Default Discourse for the Earth	0
‘As others feel pain in their lungs’: Albert Camus’sThe Plague	0
Near Symmetries: The Transnational Modernism of Edward Wolfe and William Plomer	0
Ancient Chinese Poetry and Chinese Calligraphy in Combatting COVID-19	0
Ten Chinese COVID-19 Poets	0
The Room	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
Tick Tock	0
‘These Super People’: The Superimposition of Ted Hughes’ ‘Brasilia’ on Sylvia Plath’s ‘Brasilia’	0

COVID-19: Between Panic, Racism and Social Change	0
Against Indifference: Lyric Documentation in Khaled Mattawa’s Mare Nostrum (2019)	0
The Desiring Girl in South African Young Adult Fiction	0
Notes on Contributors	0
Ways of Being: Water Spirits in Mia Couto’s Sleepwalking Land (1992)	0
The Sea and Underwater Transport in Imraan Coovadia’s The Institute for Taxi Poetry	0
‘Too Uncompromising a Figure to be So Disposed of’: Virginia Woolf and/on Olive Schreiner	0
Imprints of Indigenes and the Optics of Settlement: A Bifocal Reading ofSummer on the LakesandA Millimetre of Dust	0
Fever Dreams: Surveying the Representation of Plagues and Pandemics in South African Speculative Fiction	0
Nairobi Street-Aesthetics: Distance and Proximity in the Aesthetics of Everyday Life in the Green City	0
Glimpses of Lagos Through Vehicle Windows: The Motorized Returnee and Transient ‘Home’ in Teju Cole’s Every Day is for the Thief	0
Two Paintings	0
Elemental Humanity in Bessie Head’s When Rain Clouds Gather	0
In the Centre of the Cosmos: Sacred Spacetime in Niyi Osundare’s ‘A Song for Olosunta’	0
Brand Recognition: Damon Galgut’s The Promise as National Allegory Plus	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
Mobility and Public Transport in Post-independence Mozambican Fiction (1992-2022)	0
Active Thumbs, Confined Bodies: Eluding the ‘Insect’ in Times of the Plague	0
‘I will not eat with you’: Shylock and the Value of Vegetarianism in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice (1598)	0
Two Poems by Phelelani Makhanya	0