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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Dust Explodes for All to See: Narrating the Actual in a Time of Continuous Disaster	3
Notes on Contributors	3
Two Poems by Leanne Stillerman Zabow	3
Introduction: Damon Galgut’s The Promise and the Booker Prize Double Bind	3
‘I Am Powerful’: Agency, Autonomy and Audacity in Sefi Atta’sA Bit of Difference	3
Modernisms and Modernities in Achebe’sThings Fall Apart	3
Subtlety, Understatement and Omission in The Lord of the Rings	3
Millenarian Modernism in H. I. E. Dhlomo’sThe Girl who Killed to Save	2
Paying Homage to Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway: Revision and Reversion in Fiona Melrose’s Johannesburg	2
A Response	2
Intersex Bodies, Literary Representation and Cultural Intersectionality: Gender Bounding Violence in An Ordinary Wonder (2021)	2
Betty Molteno and the Creation of a South African Nineteenth-Century Lesbian Discourse	2
COVID-19 and African Postage Stamps	2
‘For a Further Union’: Conceptions of Unity in the Later W.B. Yeats and T.S. Eliot	2
Uncanny Times: The Case of Eugene de Kock	2
Sonification and Music: Science meets Art	1
“Black Hamlet”	1
Street Art and the Reconfiguration of Civic Advocacy in Nairobi City	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
Within the Landscape: A Postcolonial Ecocritical Reading of Yvonne Vera’s Butterfly Burning	1
Self/Isolation	1
An End in Itself: Genre, Apocalypse and the Archive in Deon Meyer’s Fever	1

Re-imagining a New Normal: COVID-19 Pandemic and the Changing Face of Social Interaction	1
Journeying through Nairobi: Mapping the City through Prize-Winning Stories	1
Public Transport in Pre-Apartheid Literary Johannesburg: Between Progress and Oppression	1
Literary Encounters: The Beat Generation, Poland and South Africa, 1948–1968	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
Memory Book as a New Genre of Illness Writing: How a Ugandan Mother Wrote about HIV	1
Transportation and Agon in Chinua Achebe’s No Longer at Ease and Anthills of the Savannah	1
Green Dream	1
The Arrival from Abroad: Train Travel and Mobile Ideas of Race in Pre-Apartheid South African Literature	1
‘The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth’: The Anthropomorphism of Earth and Proleptic Ecological Mourning in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road (2006)	1
A Watery Umwelt: Intercorporeal Currents in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves and Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s Philosophy	1
Acting Across Diaspora: Transnational Spaces and Voices in Hala Alyan’s The Arsonists’ City	1
Plague and Cultural Panic: Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Masque of the Red Death’	1
Their Galgut, Our Galgut: A Complimentary Rant on the Booker Prize	1
Sekhmet and the Shaman: Extinction, Ferality and Trans-species Connections in Henrietta Rose-Innes’ Green Lion	1
The Modern Tragic Animal in the Zoo: A Zoocritical Reading of The Hairy Ape	1
‘As others feel pain in their lungs’: Albert Camus’sThe Plague	0
Black Hamlet: A Script in Search of a Stage	0
Towards a Poetics of Disaster: Chinese Poetry in Combatting COVID-19	0
Suffering and Greatness: Metaphor, Will and Self-reference in The Flying Dutchman	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
Brand Recognition: Damon Galgut’s The Promise as National Allegory Plus	0
Mobility and Public Transport in Post-independence Mozambican Fiction (1992-2022)	0
‘I knew her, Horatio’: Legacies of Shakespearean Performance in South Africa	0
‘I will not eat with you’: Shylock and the Value of Vegetarianism in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice (1598)	0
Gods for Sale: Religious Appropriation and Capitalism in Okey Ndibe’s Foreign Gods Inc .	0
Active Thumbs, Confined Bodies: Eluding the ‘Insect’ in Times of the Plague	0
The Desiring Girl in South African Young Adult Fiction	0
Cooking Your Goose: Chaucer’s Food and the Realist Mode	0
The Plague Years: An Introduction	0
Against Indifference: Lyric Documentation in Khaled Mattawa’s Mare Nostrum (2019)	0
Ten Chinese COVID-19 Poets	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
Making Kin?: Creation and Monstrosity in Mohale Mashigo’s ‘Little Vultures’ (2018)	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
Imprints of Indigenes and the Optics of Settlement: A Bifocal Reading ofSummer on the LakesandA Millimetre of Dust	0
The Room	0
Reading Resistance in Damon Galgut’s The Promise : An Analysis of Narrative Perspective	0
Introduction: South African and African Modernism – Beyond a Century, Beyond the Provisional	0
Racialized Railway Mobilities: Repression and Resistance in the Anglophone South African Short Story During the Drum Decade	0
Correction	0
Notes on Contributors	0
COVID-19: Between Panic, Racism and Social Change	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
‘These Super People’: The Superimposition of Ted Hughes’ ‘Brasilia’ on Sylvia Plath’s ‘Brasilia’	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
Near Symmetries: The Transnational Modernism of Edward Wolfe and William Plomer	0
The Sea and Underwater Transport in Imraan Coovadia’s The Institute for Taxi Poetry	0
Correction	0
Notes on Contributors	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
Dan Wylie’s Poetry and a New Default Discourse for the Earth	0
Ancient Chinese Poetry and Chinese Calligraphy in Combatting COVID-19	0
‘Too Uncompromising a Figure to be So Disposed of’: Virginia Woolf and/on Olive Schreiner	0
Criteria of Embarrassment: J.M. Coetzee’s ‘Jesus Trilogy’ and the Legacy of Modernist Difficulty	0
The Limits of Hydro-modernity: A Hydro-critical Reading of Kariba Dam in Selected Texts	0
The Boda Boda (R)age: Economies of Affection in the Motorbike Taxis of Kenya	0
Tick Tock	0
Some Speculative Musings on COVID-19 Affectivity, Raymond Williams’ ‘Structure of Feeling’ and Zadie Smith’s Intimations	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
Hydropolitical Textualities	0
Two Poems by Phelelani Makhanya	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
‘[T]o Make us Complete as Human Beings’: Soil as the Bedrock of Collected Memories in Niq Mhlongo’s Paradise in Gaza	0
Exploring Institutionalized Oppression in The Book of Not (2006)	0
Will the COVID-19 Crisis Lead to a Fourth Wave of Neo-nationalism?	0
Ways of Being: Water Spirits in Mia Couto’s Sleepwalking Land (1992)	0