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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Brand Recognition: Damon Galgut’s The Promise as National Allegory Plus	3
Their Galgut, Our Galgut: A Complimentary Rant on the Booker Prize	3
‘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	3
‘Good’ South African Literature: The Booker Prize, its Infatuation with the Postcolonial and Damon Galgut’s The Promise	3
Criteria of Embarrassment: J.M. Coetzee’s ‘Jesus Trilogy’ and the Legacy of Modernist Difficulty	2
COVID-19: Between Panic, Racism and Social Change	2
The Boda Boda (R)age: Economies of Affection in the Motorbike Taxis of Kenya	2
Millenarian Modernism in H. I. E. Dhlomo’sThe Girl who Killed to Save	2
Sonification and Music: Science meets Art	1
Near Symmetries: The Transnational Modernism of Edward Wolfe and William Plomer	1
Fever Dreams: Surveying the Representation of Plagues and Pandemics in South African Speculative Fiction	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
A Piece of My Self: The ‘Wound’ in the Writing of Richard Ford	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
Modernisms and Modernities in Achebe’sThings Fall Apart	1
A Response	1
Against Indifference: Lyric Documentation in Khaled Mattawa’s Mare Nostrum (2019)	1
Dust Explodes for All to See: Narrating the Actual in a Time of Continuous Disaster	1
The Limits of Hydro-modernity: A Hydro-critical Reading of Kariba Dam in Selected Texts	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
Ways of Being: Water Spirits in Mia Couto’s Sleepwalking Land (1992)	1
Elemental Humanity in Bessie Head’s When Rain Clouds Gather	1

Introduction: Damon Galgut’s The Promise and the Booker Prize Double Bind	1
Active Thumbs, Confined Bodies: Eluding the ‘Insect’ in Times of the Plague	1
Literary Encounters: The Beat Generation, Poland and South Africa, 1948–1968	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	1
Imprints of Indigenes and the Optics of Settlement: A Bifocal Reading ofSummer on the LakesandA Millimetre of Dust	1
Plague and Cultural Panic: Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Masque of the Red Death’	1
From the Politics of Forgetting to the Ethics of Remembering: The Postcolonial Sublime in J. M. Coetzee’sWaiting for the Barbarians	1
Within the Landscape: A Postcolonial Ecocritical Reading of Yvonne Vera’s Butterfly Burning	1
An End in Itself: Genre, Apocalypse and the Archive in Deon Meyer’s Fever	1
Racialized Railway Mobilities: Repression and Resistance in the Anglophone South African Short Story During the Drum Decade	0
Notes on Contributors	0
Glimpses of Lagos Through Vehicle Windows: The Motorized Returnee and Transient ‘Home’ in Teju Cole’s Every Day is for the Thief	0
‘I Am Powerful’: Agency, Autonomy and Audacity in Sefi Atta’sA Bit of Difference	0
Two Poems by Leanne Stillerman Zabow	0
Introduction: South African and African Modernism – Beyond a Century, Beyond the Provisional	0
Two Poems by Phelelani Makhanya	0
Betty Molteno and the Creation of a South African Nineteenth-Century Lesbian Discourse	0
Ancient Chinese Poetry and Chinese Calligraphy in Combatting COVID-19	0
Correction	0
Acting Across Diaspora: Transnational Spaces and Voices in Hala Alyan’s The Arsonists’ City	0
Mobility and Public Transport in Post-independence Mozambican Fiction (1992-2022)	0
The Room	0
Notes on Contributors	0
Notes on Contributors	0
Hydropolitical Textualities	0
Street Art and the Reconfiguration of Civic Advocacy in Nairobi City	0
Masked Masterpieces: in R≡lational Folds	0
The Modern Tragic Animal in the Zoo: A Zoocritical Reading of The Hairy Ape	0
Transportation and Agon in Chinua Achebe’s No Longer at Ease and Anthills of the Savannah	0
Public Transport in Pre-Apartheid Literary Johannesburg: Between Progress and Oppression	0
Correction	0
Re-imagining a New Normal: COVID-19 Pandemic and the Changing Face of Social Interaction	0
‘As others feel pain in their lungs’: Albert Camus’sThe Plague	0
Subtlety, Understatement and Omission in The Lord of the Rings	0
Will the COVID-19 Crisis Lead to a Fourth Wave of Neo-nationalism?	0
Two Paintings	0
Nairobi Street-Aesthetics: Distance and Proximity in the Aesthetics of Everyday Life in the Green City	0
Tick Tock	0
Black Hamlet: A Script in Search of a Stage	0
Uncanny Times: The Case of Eugene de Kock	0
Notes on Contributors	0
Introduction: Moving Publicly, Writing Mobility: Public Transport in African Literatures	0
‘[T]o Make us Complete as Human Beings’: Soil as the Bedrock of Collected Memories in Niq Mhlongo’s Paradise in Gaza	0
“Black Hamlet”	0
The Sea and Underwater Transport in Imraan Coovadia’s The Institute for Taxi Poetry	0
Green Dream	0
The Arrival from Abroad: Train Travel and Mobile Ideas of Race in Pre-Apartheid South African Literature	0
Reading Resistance in Damon Galgut’s The Promise : An Analysis of Narrative Perspective	0
In the Centre of the Cosmos: Sacred Spacetime in Niyi Osundare’s ‘A Song for Olosunta’	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

The Plague Years: An Introduction	0
‘For a Further Union’: Conceptions of Unity in the Later W.B. Yeats and T.S. Eliot	0
Towards a Poetics of Disaster: Chinese Poetry in Combatting COVID-19	0
Sekhmet and the Shaman: Extinction, Ferality and Trans-species Connections in Henrietta Rose-Innes’ Green Lion	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
Ten Chinese COVID-19 Poets	0
Relational Resilience in The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After and Call Me American: A Memoir	0
Hero	0
Gods for Sale: Religious Appropriation and Capitalism in Okey Ndibe’s Foreign Gods Inc .	0
Journeying through Nairobi: Mapping the City through Prize-Winning Stories	0
COVID-19 and African Postage Stamps	0