OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of English Studies in Africa is 1. 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
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
Brand Recognition: Damon Galgut’s The Promise as National Allegory Plus	3
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
Criteria of Embarrassment: J.M. Coetzee’s ‘Jesus Trilogy’ and the Legacy of Modernist Difficulty	2
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
Sonification and Music: Science meets Art	1
Near Symmetries: The Transnational Modernism of Edward Wolfe and William Plomer	1