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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
COVID-19: Between Panic, Racism and Social Change	2
Talking Books: The Paratextuality of African Literary Podcasts	2
‘Good’ South African Literature: The Booker Prize, its Infatuation with the Postcolonial and Damon Galgut’s The Promise	2
Brand Recognition: Damon Galgut’s The Promise as National Allegory Plus	2
‘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	2
Their Galgut, Our Galgut: A Complimentary Rant on the Booker Prize	2
Criteria of Embarrassment: J.M. Coetzee’s ‘Jesus Trilogy’ and the Legacy of Modernist Difficulty	2
The Boda Boda (R)age: Economies of Affection in the Motorbike Taxis of Kenya	1
‘Too Uncompromising a Figure to be So Disposed of’: Virginia Woolf and/on Olive Schreiner	1
Some Speculative Musings on COVID-19 Affectivity, Raymond Williams’ ‘Structure of Feeling’ and Zadie Smith’s Intimations	1
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	1
An End in Itself: Genre, Apocalypse and the Archive in Deon Meyer’s Fever	1
Millenarian Modernism in H. I. E. Dhlomo’sThe Girl who Killed to Save	1
An Unheroic Hero: Somerset Maugham’s Autobiographical Fable of the Anglo-Boer War	1
Dust Explodes for All to See: Narrating the Actual in a Time of Continuous Disaster	1
Fever Dreams: Surveying the Representation of Plagues and Pandemics in South African Speculative Fiction	1
Paying Homage to Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway: Revision and Reversion in Fiona Melrose’s Johannesburg	1
Memory Book as a New Genre of Illness Writing: How a Ugandan Mother Wrote about HIV	1
‘Home is Another Country’: A Foucauldian Reading of Sisonke Msimang’s Always Another Country	1
The Intimate Strangeness of Tongues and Wings: Precarity and Conviviality in The Book of Malachi by T.C. Farren and The Theory of Flight by Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu	1
Sonification and Music: Science meets Art	1
Near Symmetries: The Transnational Modernism of Edward Wolfe and William Plomer	1
Literary Encounters: The Beat Generation, Poland and South Africa, 1948–1968	1
Imprints of Indigenes and the Optics of Settlement: A Bifocal Reading ofSummer on the LakesandA Millimetre of Dust	1
Radical Feminism and Androcide in Nawal El Saadawi’sWoman at Point Zero	1

From the Politics of Forgetting to the Ethics of Remembering: The Postcolonial Sublime in J. M. Coetzee’sWaiting for the Barbarians	1
Elemental Humanity in Bessie Head’s When Rain Clouds Gather	1
Historical Sources and the Writing of Fiction: An Analysis of Valerie Cuthbert’s The Great Siege of Fort Jesus	1
Active Thumbs, Confined Bodies: Eluding the ‘Insect’ in Times of the Plague	1
‘As others feel pain in their lungs’: Albert Camus’sThe Plague	0
Correction	0
Will the COVID-19 Crisis Lead to a Fourth Wave of Neo-nationalism?	0
Re-imagining a New Normal: COVID-19 Pandemic and the Changing Face of Social Interaction	0
Two Paintings	0
Acting Across Diaspora: Transnational Spaces and Voices in Hala Alyan’s The Arsonists’ City	0
‘We know little of the king’s fair daughter, Claribel’: The Challenge of Islam inThe Tempest	0
A Piece of My Self: The ‘Wound’ in the Writing of Richard Ford	0
Journeying through Nairobi: Mapping the City through Prize-Winning Stories	0
Makanna, Or, The Land of the Savage: Makhanda ka Nxele in English Literature	0
The Room	0
“Black Hamlet”	0
Notes on Contributors	0
COVID-19 and African Postage Stamps	0
‘I gave him Leave to Live’: Emily Dickinson’s Non-service and Ralph Waldo Emerson	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
Subtlety, Understatement and Omission in The Lord of the Rings	0
‘For a Further Union’: Conceptions of Unity in the Later W.B. Yeats and T.S. Eliot	0
In the Centre of the Cosmos: Sacred Spacetime in Niyi Osundare’s ‘A Song for Olosunta’	0
Towards a Poetics of Disaster: Chinese Poetry in Combatting COVID-19	0
The Plague Years: An Introduction	0
Plague and Cultural Panic: Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Masque of the Red Death’	0
Nairobi Street-Aesthetics: Distance and Proximity in the Aesthetics of Everyday Life in the Green City	0
Tick Tock	0
Relational Resilience in The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After and Call Me American: A Memoir	0
Street Art and the Reconfiguration of Civic Advocacy in Nairobi City	0
Introduction: Damon Galgut’s The Promise and the Booker Prize Double Bind	0
Notes on Contributors	0
The Loss Library and Other Unfinished Stories: Towards a Collection of Creative Paratextual Writing or Literaturein potentia	0
Black Hamlet: A Script in Search of a Stage	0
Masked Masterpieces: in R≡lational Folds	0
The Modern Tragic Animal in the Zoo: A Zoocritical Reading of The Hairy Ape	0
Encountering ‘Confusions in Existing Arrangements’ in South African Literature: Contesting Temporality in Imraan Coovadia’s Tales of the Metric System	0
Introduction: South African and African Modernism – Beyond a Century, Beyond the Provisional	0
Chinese Calligraphy and Painting: Dao 道, Wuwei 无为, and Wu 悟	0
Betty Molteno and the Creation of a South African Nineteenth-Century Lesbian Discourse	0
Two Poems by Leanne Stillerman Zabow	0
Ancient Chinese Poetry and Chinese Calligraphy in Combatting COVID-19	0
Two Poems by Phelelani Makhanya	0
Correction	0
Formula in the Praise Chants of Chief Adolphus Munamuna,Ọụbẹbẹ Kẹnị Ịzọn Ibe(The Chief Oral Poet of the Ịzọn Nation)	0
Self/Isolation	0
‘[T]o Make us Complete as Human Beings’: Soil as the Bedrock of Collected Memories in Niq Mhlongo’s Paradise in Gaza	0
Notes on Contributors	0
Ten Chinese COVID-19 Poets	0

A Response	0
Hero	0
Modernisms and Modernities in Achebe’sThings Fall Apart	0
Notes on Contributors	0
Green Dream	0
Sekhmet and the Shaman: Extinction, Ferality and Trans-species Connections in Henrietta Rose-Innes’ Green Lion	0
‘I Am Powerful’: Agency, Autonomy and Audacity in Sefi Atta’sA Bit of Difference	0