OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Commonwealth Literature 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
Trembling strength: Migrating vulnerabilities in fiction by Sharon Bala, Yasmin Ladha, and Denise Chong	3
Ahmed Saadawi’s Frankenstein in Baghdad as a case study of consecration, annexation, and decontextualization in Arabic–English literary translation	3
Toward postmigrant realities in Leila Aboulela’s Elsewhere, Home	2
Editorial: Covid’s metamorphoses	2
Generic fracturing in Okot p’Bitek’s White Teeth	2
Moving world, moving voices: A discussion with Daljit Nagra	2
Possessing women in Olive Schreiner’s From Man to Man or Perhaps Only —	2
Patriarchal forms of national community in post-apartheid literature: Re-examining ubuntu and gender in Sindiwe Magona’s Mother to Mother (1998) and Zakes Mda’s The Heart of Redness (200	2
Representing the representers: Non-Western depictions of Orientalists and Orientalism in Turkish, Mexican, and Bengali writing	1
His own Chernobyl: The embodiment of radiation and the resistance to nuclear extractivism in Nadine Gordimer’s Get a Life	1
Jagadish Chandra Bose and the anticolonial politics of science fiction	1
Defiance and the speakability of rape: Decolonizing trauma studies in Mahasweta Devi’s short fiction	1
The culture of erosion: Settler colonialism, geological agency, and New Zealand literature, 1930s–1950s	1
The Australian Reifungsroman: Reading women’s ageing in Kate Grenville’s The Idea of Perfection and Dorothy Hewett’s Neap Tide	1
Land and storytelling: Indigenous pathways towards healing, spiritual regeneration, and resurgence	1
The aesthetic sublimation of pain in Niyi Osundare’s City Without People	1
Colonial monuments, postcolonial selves: History, trauma and silence in Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor’sDust	1
Aotearoa New Zealand	1
Remembering against sentimentality: Partition’s literary shadows in the work of Najm Hosain Syed	1
Introduction: Partition — 75 Years On	1
Labour migration, the Arabian Gulf, and the expanding territorial imagination in Malayalam cinema	1
Tagore’s exploration of Hindu identity in Gora	1
Bangladesh	1
Editorial	1
Appropriation redux: Re-reading George Ryga through Jeannette Armstrong	1

Against Afropolitanism: Race and the Black migrant body in contemporary African poetry	1
Elsa Joubert’s Cul-de-sac: A disability politics reflection	1
Sri Lanka	1
African strangers, spaces of belonging and the “democracy to come” in Helon Habila’s Travellers	1
An ocean of languages? Multilingualism in Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness	1
“A bit of the other”: Black edibility and white consumption in Andrea Levy’s Small Island	1
Animals, others, and postcolonial ecomasculinities: Nadeem Aslam’s The Blind Man’s Garden	1
Between vulnerability and resistance: Rhetorical strategies in Indigenous Canadian nonfiction	1
The dark forest of exile: A Dandakaranya memoir and the Partition’s Dalit refugees	0
Obituary: K. S. Maniam (1942–2020)	0
West Africa	0
Flaunting dissonance: The queering of narrative and gender boundaries in Patrick White’sThe Aunt’s Story	0
Blueprint for interracial solidarity: C. L. R. James’s Mariners, Renegades, and Castaways as prison writing	0
South Africa	0
East and Central Africa	0
Religion is ever present in the theatres of violence: Elnathan John chats with Isidore Diala	0
Rethinking powers of political: The national emergency and the J. P. movement in Rahi Masoom Raza’s Katra Bi Arzoo	0
Afterlives of colonialism: Nostalgia, reader’s response and the case of Noel Barber’s Tanamera	0
India	0
Sri Lanka	0
Telling translocal histories: Reading the migrant life-worlds in Gulf-Keralan writing	0
Witnessing gendered testimony: Reader ethics in Bapsi Sidhwa’s Cracking India	0
Pakistan	0
South Africa	0
Malaysia and Singapore	0
Emergency contact: Compassion and precarious love in Michael Christie’sThe Beggar’s Garden	0
The art in fiction: Thomas Keneally	0
Aotearoa New Zealand	0
Malaysia and Singapore	0
Undoing slavery’s anonymity: The politics of identification in twenty-first century Black Canadian poetry	0
East and Central Africa	0
Self-possession and the crisis of the post-colony in Achebe’s A Man of the People	0
Asif Farrukhi: Larger Than Life (1959–2020)	0
Being Obotunde Ijimere and M. Lovori: Mapping Ulli Beier’s intercultural hoaxes from Nigeria to Papua New Guinea	0
“If I speak like you, I am you”: Racial passing in Trevor Noah’s Born a Crime and Other Stories	0
The Caribbean	0
A gulf of secrets: Priya Kuriyan’s graphic memoir “Ebony and Ivory”	0
Postcolonial disjuncture: Kashmir as the other in Basharat Peer’s Curfewed Night	0
Multidirectional vulnerabilities: Trauma, bare life, and resistance in June Hutton’sUnderground	0
This generation’sWild Swans? Counter-stereotyping self-creation in Xiaolu Guo’sOnce Upon a Time in the East: A Story of Growing Up	0
Reassembling components: Ivan Coyote writes down difficult things	0
Canada	0
Canada	0
Kishwar Desai’s Simran Singh series: Crime, detection, and gender	0
Sri Lanka	0
Narratives of city exposure: Incarnations of the street person in Zanta: The Living Legend and The Dregs	0
Rethinking nineteenth-century literary culture: British worlds, southern latitudes and hemispheric methods	0
“Immerse my eye in every colour”: A conversation with Aamer Hussein	0
India	0
Pakistan	0

Between “the lights and shadows”: Reading the new edition of Olive Schreiner’sFrom Man to Man or Perhaps Only —	0
Erratum to Special issue: Partition — 75 Years On	0
Risky business in Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Joseph O’Neill’s Netherland	0
Bangladesh	0
Eye Errant: Kei Miller’sThe Cartographer Tries to Map a Way To Zionand the geopoetics of the senses	0
Eveline, Elsie, and the politics of paralysis: Echoes of Dubliners in Zoë Wicomb’s “Nothing Like the Wind”	0
Tanure Ojaide on the poet: Preliminary notes on a writer’s poetics	0
Annual Bibliography of Commonwealth Literature 2020	0
Primitivist tensions in Caribbean-American literature: Claude McKay’s and Paule Marshall’s return to the island	0
“The same spaces but…different worlds”: Witness-bearing and redefinitions of shared space	0
Corrigendum to “Obituary: K. S. Maniam (1947–2020)”	0
The Caribbean	0
India	0
Unfinished stories of the Partition: Across 75 years	0
The specular dream: Historical imaginary in speculative fiction of colonial Bengal	0
Australia	0
“Hope and grief woven together”: Consolation in a queer reading of Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness	0
East and Central Africa	0
Malaysia and Singapore	0
Canada	0
Obituary: Elsa Joubert (1922–2020)	0
South Africa	0
The “in-betweens” and the “hatadaiva”: Oscillating, fantastic realities in Tashan Mehta’s The Liar’s Weave	0
Manto and the Mad Muselmann	0
“New patriotism” in post-war Sri Lanka and the revival of the Walauva as a site of power in contemporary Sri Lankan English fiction	0
West Africa	0
African poetry and the intellectual: A critique of the academy in verse	0
Aotearoa New Zealand	0
Australia	0
Dreaming with drones: Palestine under the shadow of unseen war	0
Cinematic empire and nostalgia inViceroy’s HouseandVictoria and Abdul	0
World Literature, the opaque archive, and the untranslatable: J. M. Coetzee and some others	0
Transversality, a hijra politics of knowledge, and Partition postmemory in Khushwant Singh’s Delhi: A Novel*	0
Malaysia and Singapore	0
Annual Bibliography of Commonwealth Literature 2019	0
Trans-poetics in Hiromi Goto’s novels	0
Decolonization and the aesthetics of disorder: Naipaul, Evaristo, Boland	0
Between Madras and Chennai: Narratives of belonging in a postcolonial city	0
Marginalia as narratives of ordinary lives: Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall’s Down to This	0
Human suffering and tragic contradictions in Amechi Akwanya’s Pilgrim Foot	0
“The past does not lie behind us”: Warrior-matriarchs’ retrotopia in Witi Ihimaera’s fiction	0
India	0
East and Central Africa	0
South Africa	0
Malayalam literature as a transnational space of political change: Migration and Bahrain’s 2011 uprising in Benyamin’s Jasmine Days and Al Arabian Novel Factory	0
A guide to performance: Role-playing, theatricality, and celebrity in R. K. Narayan’s The Guide and My Dateless Diary	0
Australia	0
Sri Lanka	0
Pakistan	0
Bangladesh	0
The Partition and Bengal, seventy-five years on	0
West Africa	0
Bangladesh	0
Common/wealth: Contested commons and proleptic critique	0
Pakistan	0
Australia	0
Gender and the politics of war historiography in Buchi Emecheta’s Destination Biafra	0
Introduction	0
Partition and its echoes in Karachi: The political agencies of Fahmida Riaz and Perween Rahman	0
Agential realism and trans-corporeality in contemporary South Asian literature	0
Aotearoa New Zealand	0
Roots and routes: Literary archaeologies of British museums in contemporary Black and Asian poetry	0
“A point that escapes Darwin”: Crises of colonial self in the nature essays of Edward Hamilton Aitken and Philip Robinson	0
A strange and sublime longing: Looking back at childhood in Calcutta in A Strange and Sublime Address and The Blue Bedspread	0
Canada	0
The Caribbean	0
A call for mutual change and progress: An interview with Aravind Malagatti and Dharani Devi Malagatti	0
Ghosting history/historicizing the ghost: Time passage in T. C. Haliburton’sThe Old Judge	0
Precariousness, kinship, and care: Becoming human in Claire Cameron’sThe Last Neanderthal	0
The global refugee: Oceanic border thinking in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s By the Sea	0
The Caribbean	0
Da decolonizing real: Liberating humour in Joe Balaz’s Pidgin Eye	0