OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Texas Studies in Literature and Language 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Speculative-Real Ethnoracial Spaces and the Formation of a Nepantlera Warrior	1
Pilgrim Guide: Coming to Our Senses amid the Climate Crisis	1
Infinite Storms of Beauty: Hopkins, Dillard, and the Epistemology of Downturn, 1870s/1970s	1
The Daughter’s Paradox: Filial Piety and Rebellion in Three Chinese Mother-Daughter Narratives	1
Creative Creatures	0
“You Are a Cortez!”: Robert Rodriguez’s Tejano Sensibility and Restorative Kinship in the Spy Kids Series	0
Love as Subjectification in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go	0
“Observance of Civility”: Jewish Identity and Anxiety in Seinfeld and William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice	0
Reading Pilgrim at Tinker Creek in the Digital Age: On Corpus Stylistics and “Intricacy”	0
Between Land and Settler Subjectivity: The Modernist Animal’s Territory in Katherine Mansfield’s “Prelude”	0
Negotiating the Politics of Chinese Fiction: The Case of Yan Lianke’s “Child”	0
Owning a Sense of Perversity in Ellen Wood’s East Lynne	0
A Melting Glossary of Water: Seeping into Separations	0
The Importance of Being Earnest in The Importance of Being Earnest	0
“The Moon Slides Down the Stair / To See Who’s There”: The Poetics of the Crossword and the Cross Words of Poetics	0
About Our Cover Art	0
What Is Aggro? Situationist Aesthetics in the Plays of Howard Brenton	0
Where Is HERE, When Is NOW? Literary “Presentism” after Romanticism	0
Lautréamont, Anarchism, and the Origins of the Avant-Garde	0
“Understanding Each Other Perfectly”: The Desire for Unmediated Communion in Katherine Mansfield’s “Bliss”	0
“To Get a Feel for What This Means”: Annie Dillard’s Thought Experiments and the Quest to Understand Compassion	0
The Politics of Black Domesticity in Martin R. Delany’s Blake, or the Huts of America	0
Charles d’Orléans’s “Fowle Langage”	0
Paul Laurence Dunbar and the Naturalism/Dialect Poetry Divide	0
Compromised Men and Aspiring Women: The Fatality of Romance in James M. Cain’s Depression-Era Novels	0

Paradise Lost and the Genre of Disaster Films	0
End of the Road: Joan Didion, Hunter S. Thompson, and True Crime in the Auto-Apocalyptic West	0
Reimagining Community at the Open Marshland: Ecocritical Anti-Bildung in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go	0
Howard Jacobson’s Shylock Is My Name and the Badiou-Agamben Debate on Paul the Apostle	0
Emotional Repression in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun	0
Silence, Space, and Absence in Joseph Conrad’s African Fiction	0
The Critique of Reason and Biopolitics in William Blake’s The Four Zoas	0
“No Sorcery”: Chess, Artistic Sensibility, and Subjective Development in The Queen’s Gambit	0
Shakespeare the Formalist: Reading and Rewriting John Marston in the Poets’ War	0
The Unfinishedness & Untimeliness of A Raisin in the Sun	0
Nothing to See Here, Move On: A New Look at Humor in Aldous Huxley’s Mock-Dystopic Brave New World	0
Stevie as Revolutionary in Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent	0
The Reading Closet	0
Teaching Pilgrim at Tinker Creek in Beijing	0
Lord Byron in Colonial Korea: Korean Intellectuals Pursuing National Freedom in the Spirit of Byron	0
García Márquez’s Literary Smuggling in The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor	0
Reading Post-slavery Subjectivities in Chris Ware’s Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth	0
Reopening the Dan White Trial in Emily Mann’s Execution of Justice	0
Post-9/11-Disaster Katrina: Reenacting American Innocence in Dave Eggers’s Zeitoun	0
The Politics of the Poison Pen: Communism, Caricature, and Scapegoats in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man	0
The Surprising Success of C. R. Maturin’s Bertram: A Collaboration with Scott, Byron, Kean, and Murray	0
The Dialectics of Barbarous Civilization: Black Transnational Modernism in Claude McKay’s Banjo	0
The South/Western Gothic: White Capitalist Zombies in Katherine Anne Porter’s Noon Wine	0
The Roots and Routes of Black Emancipation in Sutton Griggs’s Imperium in Imperio	0
Opium Smoking, Religion, and Commodity Culture in The Mystery of Edwin Drood	0
A Man in Search of Family: Kinship and Decline in Michel Houellebecq’s Submission	0
Irony, Recusancy, and Repentance in Robert Southwell’s Saint Peter’s Complaint	0
Performing Race: Heterotopias in David Henry Hwang’s FOB and Bondage	0
Intratextual Ishiguro: Transitional Spaces and the Unmaking of Interpretative Communities	0
The Wizard of Awe: An Introduction in Three Parts	0
“Why Am I a Girl?”: Gender Variance and the Racial Ideal in Frank Bidart’s “Ellen West”	0
Under the Sign of the Middle Passage: Black Solidarity Reimagined	0
Miserable Communions: Sentimentality in Claudia Rankine’s Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric	0
A Rite of Finitude: Richard Wilbur’s Hermeneutic Ontology	0
From Dawn Till Dusk: El Rey Network and the Evolution of Cable Television in the 2010s	0
Robert Rodriguez: Teaching Creativity	0
Jiujitsu of the Spirit: Trueblood, His Audience, and Lyrical Subversion in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man	0
A Schoolhouse of Their Own: Economic Erotics in The Children’s Hour	0
The Latinx Fantastic: Robert Rodriguez and the Power of His Speculative Storytelling	0
Out of the Closet and Into the Home: Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, and the Affordances of the Domestic Interior	0
Ommateum and the Early Career of A. R. Ammons	0
An Extremist’s Exercise: What We Can and Cannot Think and Say with Wallace Stevens	0
Between Transgression and Conviviality: Everyday Urban Space and the Carnivalesque Strategies in The Lonely Londoners	0
The Other James: James Joyce, Henry James, and Seamus Deane’s Reading in the Dark	0
Transnational Intimacy in Israel Potter	0
Archive Notes: An Introduction to the Kazuo Ishiguro Papers	0
Introduction: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek at Fifty	0
Roles That Contain and Restrain: Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day, Klara and the Sun, and Living	0
“The Surface on Which You Work”: Self-Alienation and the Culture of Narcissism in The Edible Woman	0
Vampirism in the Ether: Radio’s Horrific Potential in Orson Welles’s “Dracula”	0

Samuel Beckett’s Allusions to John Donne	0
Romanticism and Consciousness, Revisited: A Roundtable Discussion	0