Tydskrif vir Letterkunde

Papers
(The median citation count of Tydskrif vir Letterkunde 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
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Folklore genre designation among the Manden peoples6
“The future is often the past in a different font”: An interview with Osahon Ize-Iyamu4
Religious metaphors and the crisis of faith in Wole Soyinka’s poetry3
Sons of Mud (Johan Vlok Louw)3
Unam Wena (Mthunzikazi A. Mbungwana)3
Queer, Christian and Afrikaans: The libidinal, sexuality and religion in Kanarie and Skeef3
Creative dynamism and religious syncretism in Igbo oral funeral songs2
Toxic mobilities and the politics of unending in Henrietta Rose-Innes’s “Poison”2
Die intellektuele geskiedenis van bruin intelligentsia: ’n herbesoek aan P. J. Philander (1921–2006)2
From slave trade to fuel tanks: On Benin’s colonial displacements2
Women’s liberation and protest through transnational storytelling1
’n Huldiging: Karel Schoeman—Stiltes en stemme (Willie Burger, red.)1
Glocal memory in the Black Atlantic triad operas by Black women composers1
African American women in opera and the dilemma of representation1
Ama Ata Aidoo (1942–2023)1
“It’s easy to just be normal”: Performative masculinities in Die stropers1
Social commentary in the song “Chineke doo” by Sam Ojukwu1
Vanden vos Reynaerde se transformasie tot Reinaard die Jakkals1
Dolf van Niekerk (1929-2022)1
Wilma Stockenström: Met my wysvingertop (Ronel Foster, red.)1
Récits de vie au Burkina Faso: Enjeux, rhétorique, réception (Edgard Sankara)1
Queer Bodies in African Films (Gibson Ncube)1
Liens et dialogues insulaires dans l’océan Indien: des textes poético-critiques au roman mauricien1
Spoke, liefde en geslagsgebaseerde geweld in “Die bouval op Wilgerdal”1
Decima1
Gospel Àpàlà music in African Christian worship: Thematic and stylistic analysis1
Patriarchal orientations and womanist protests in pre-colonial Urhobo women’s songs1
Ontaard (Pieter Odendaal)1
Can Themba: The Making and Breaking of the Intellectual Tsotsi, a Biography (Siphiwo Mahala)1
ek en jy bestaan nie (Danie Marais)0
Preliminary notes on topicality and recent pandemic poetry0
Hou jou oë oop (Brian Fredericks)0
An ecocritical reading of Okot p’Bitek’s “Chameleon and Elephant”0
’n Huldiging. Digter van die kwiksilwerwoord: InaRousseau (Daniel Hugo, red.)0
Laatnageilande (Marlise Joubert)0
Afrika-oraliteit by Eugène Marais: die wisselwerking tussen enkele “Sangedigte” en Dwaalstories0
To listen with decolonial ears: Hein Willemse, hidden histories, and the politics of disruptive intervention0
erf en elders (Kleinboer)0
Sluitstuk (Johann Rossouw)0
Re-defining Ghanaian hiplife songs by women as liberatory narratives0
Van vaders en vlugtelinge (S. J. Naudé)0
Oral performance as substitute for ritual: Ekutet, a Teso exhumation ceremony0
From rain-bringer to wealth-giver: Changing forms of the snake in southern African belief systems0
Patmos: ’n novelle (Willem Anker)0
Convivial Worlds: Writing Relation from Africa (Tina Steiner)0
Don Jadu (S.E.K. Mqhyai)0
Die kapokdokter (François Loots)0
’n Interseksionele ondersoek: Godsdiens, feminisme, identiteit en behoort in geselekteerde digbundels0
Réinventer l’avenir global dans Rouge impératrice de Léonora Miano: entre afrofuturisme et écotopie0
In die gees van die Dionisiese: Marlene van Niekerk se aanhangersbrief aan Freddy Mercury0
Return to the Scene of the Crime: The Returnee Detective and Postcolonial Detective Fiction (Kamil Naicker)0
Breaking the silence: Zimbabwean women’s musical narratives of resistance0
Petrocapitalism, displacement, and (im)mobilities in Imbolo Mbue’s How Beautiful We Were0
Foundational African Writers: Peter Abrahams, Noni Jabavu, Sibusiso Nyembezi & Es’kia Mphahlele (Bhekizizwe Peterson, Khwezi Mkhize & Makhosazana Xaba, reds.)0
Kolam (Fourie Botha)0
James Stephen Mzilikazi Khumalo (1932–2021)0
The impact of women’s singing on political and social mobilization in the Sudanese revolution0
Les traductions des œuvres littéraires de langue française en Afrique du Sud0
Mobilities and Cosmopolitanisms in African and Afrodiasporic Literatures (Anna-Leena Toivanen)0
The environmental crisis and African women’s displacements in War Girls by Tochi Onyebuchi0
Bot (Carien Smith)0
Die man wattie kinnes vang (Nathan Trantraal)0
met die oog op more: ’n versdrama (Antjie Krog)0
Plunder (Antjie Krog)0
African Performance Arts and Political Acts (Naomi André, Yolanda Covington-Ward & Jendele Hungbo, eds.)0
Binnerym van bloed (Antjie Krog)0
Étiologie des métamorphoses du vivant: Le sceau prémonitoire des chauves-souris0
Hulle noem haar Carminda0
Help, help0
Richard Green in South African Film: Forging Creative New Directions (Keyan G. Tomaselli and Richard Green)0
’n Huldiging: Antjie Krog: ’n Ondersoekte lewe (Louise Viljoen, red.)0
Leo.0
Die teks as ’n etiese aanspraak0
Alienation in Ntshavheni Alfred Milubi’s poetry0
Nou in infrarooi (Tom Dreyer)0
Interseksionele feminisme in Afrikaanse poësie: Lynthia Julius se Uit die kroes0
Die lewe is 'n asem lank: Gedigte oor verlies en vertroosting (Frieda van den Heever, red.)0
Lesser Violence: Volume 1 (Amie Soudien, ed.)0
Figures de la subjectivité dans Captive, une autofiction de Nadine Ndjomo0
The seeing eye, the narrating I: Animals in Eben Venter’s Decima (2023)0
Ek't Act (Klara du Plessis)0
Verbal art in the ecological discourse of two Amazigh/Berber documentaries0
Kwaaiwater (Irna van Zyl)0
Al wat tel (Irma Venter)0
Desmond T. Cole (1922–2018)0
Inkwenkwezi efihlakeleyo (K. Sello Duiker, translated by Xolisa Guzula)0
Deelfontein (Nicole Jaekel Strauss)0
Innovative register and feminist critique in Mark Behr’s The Smell of Apples0
Sarraounia, love, and the postcolony0
The power of exclusion in the works of André Brink and Assia Djebar0
Die onsigbare (P. J. O. Jonker)0
Gender and the Spatiality of Blackness in Contemporary AfroFrench Narratives (Polo B. Moji)0
As die katjiepiering blom (Audrey Jantjies)0
Eastern African women writers' 'national epics': A new force in creative fiction?0
Transitions, transformations, and translocations of African oral literature in the 21st century0
Tracing the (Post)Apartheid Novel beyond 2000 (Danyela Dimakatso Demir & Olivier Moreillon, eds.)0
bottelnek breek bek (Dianne Du Toit Albertze)0
Humans and non-humans in African verbal arts: Narrativity and environmental poetics at the dawn of the climate crisis—Introduction0
Die laaste kanariegeel notaboek0
Relations between humans and non-humans in Amazigh North African oral literature0
Geheim van die gruwelsand (Zirk van den Berg)0
Gender and power as negotiated in Bukusu circumcision ceremonies0
Ons skulde (P. P. Fourie)0
The world is a bar: Fiston Mwanza Mujila’s writing beyond ‘Africa’0
My jaar van vrees en vryheid (Marita van der Vyver)0
Die dood van Rachel April (P. P. Fourie)0
Citizenship and social status in Miriam Tlali’s Muriel at Metropolitan0
Towards reconstructing Africa: Recuperation and responsibility in Ayi Kwei Armah’s The Healers0
Mens en klimaat soos uitgebeeld deur Katherine Graham en Abraham H. de Vries0
Capitalism against the planet: Posthuman ecocriticism in Alistair Mackay’s It Doesn’t Have To Be This Way0
Narreskip (Johan Myburgh)0
Fuelling Bodies: Movement, embodiment, and climate crisis in Wanuri Kahiu’s Pumzi0
Metaphor patterns in Sesotho fiction: The case of the novel Chaka0
Gebeente0
Orisa Sanponna: Indigenous health systems, disability, and morality in Osofisan’s dramaturgy0
Twyfelbos (François Loots)0
Buried Treasure (Sven Axelrad)0
At Penpoint: African Literatures, Postcolonial Studies and the Cold War (Monica Popescu)0
Un futur qui manque: sur quelques pièces de théâtre togolaises0
Women’s liberation and protest through transnational storytelling0
Autobiographik in Afrika: Literaturgeschichte und Genrevielfalt (Susanne Gehrmann)0
Eugene (Kirby van der Merwe)0
Each Mortal Thing (Michiel Heyns)0
om my kastele in Spanje te sloop (Jaco Barnard-Naudé)0
Gods, music and rainmaking in Yorùbáland0
Genres of displacement: Rewriting environmental crisis from the African continent / Genres du déplacement : réécrire la crise environnementale depuis le continent africain0
In die rede geval: Waarom die mens mites maak (Charl-Pierre Naudé)0
New Afrikaans-language cinemas / Nuwe Afrikaanstalige rolprentrigtings0
Queer African Cinemas (Lindsey B. Green-Simms)0
an/other pastoral (Tjawangwa Dema)0
’n Feministiese ondersoek na Bettina Wyngaard se misdaadfiksie0
Stand-up documentary: An emerging narrative device in Yvonne Orji’s comedy0
Sirkelgang (Johann Lodewyk Marais)0
Coming to Afrikaans0
Comparative analysis of black queer feminist isiXhosa and English poetry0
Dockside Reading: Hydrocolonialism and the Custom House (Isabel Hofmeyr)0
Dwelm (Rudie van Rensburg)0
“Da Art of (Abortion) Storytellin”: Listening for reproductive justice in Black popular music0
Weerskyn (Alwyn Roux)0
Sexual Humour in Africa: Gender, Jokes, and Societal Change (Ignatius Chukwumah, ed.)0
’n Onderhoud met Kirby van der Merwe oor Eugene0
Performance in propitiatory reconciliation among the Nandi community0
Moederland (Madelein Rust)0
The language of Black women’s music: MmaAusi’s role in preserving Setswana heritage0
Die laaste kanariegeel notaboek (Anchien Troskie)0
Dolf van Niekerk (1929-2022)0
Feminismes en Suid-Afrikaanse letterkundes / Feminisms and South African literatures0
Euphrase Kezilahabi (1944-2020)0
Sanctum (Joan Hambidge)0
Slow beauty: Refocusing Oliver Hermanus’s Skoonheid through a slow cinema lens0
’n Geskiedenis van Afrikaans as kerktaal: van altaar tot kansel0
Exploring ecofeminism, ecocriticism, aquapoetics, and environmental humanities in Gabeba Baderoon’s poetry0
African(a) Queer Presence: Ethics and Politics of Negotiation (S.N. Nyeck)0
In praise of Ịjọ folklore: A Sailor’s Son by Christian Otobotekere0
Le pasteur, les bovidés et l’environnement dans la tradition orale peule0
Die melkweg en die miskruier0
Waterman (Herman Wasserman)0
Landscape histories: Origin narratives and toponyms in the rural commune of Liboré, Niger0
Die afbakening van die kern van die Afrikaanse poësiesisteem (2000–2022)0
Ons het ver […] versit: Gedigte, toesprake, onderhoude, met ’n essay deur Hein Willemse (Patrick J. Petersen)0
A corpse is also a garden (Pieter Madibuseng Odendaal)0
The post-heroism of Stuur Groete aan Mannetjies Roux and Verraaiers0
“’n Koningin volg hom”: Volkome vrou (1976) as antifeministiese agent0
Masking death: Covid-19 inspired humour in the everyday orality of a Luo community in Kenya0
Diana se dag (Helene de Kock)0
Op pad na Moormansgat (Chris Karsten)0
Desire at the End of the White Line: Notes on the Decolonisation of White Afrikaner Femininity (Azille Coetzee)0
Battling statues enter into dialogue at the Gouvernorat du Haut-Katanga0
Bonsaimeisies (Erla Diedericks)0
’n Interseksionele lesing van Lynthia Julius se Kinderlê0
Orality in Yorùbá films: A study of selected films of Akínwùmí Iṣọ̀lá0
Ver in die wêreld (Frederik de Jager, samest.)0
Bloedsomer (Sidney Gilroy)0
Variations in the application of the components of the oral performance to Yoruba chants0
Soekenjin0
Womanism in Crépuscule du tourment: Mélancolie by Léonora Miano0
Hein Willemse: Select bibliography0
Some new perspectives on the Soweto uprising: H. M. L. Lentsoane’s poem “Black Wednesday” (“Laboraro le lesoleso”)0
Brief op veertigduisend voet (Tom Dreyer)0
Duifeling (Lize Albertyn du-Toit)0
Hein Willemse: Teen die grein / Against the grain0
Stinkhout (Philip Rademeyer)0
Journals editing, editor recognition, and impacting disciplines0
Language, education, and transformation in Bianca Marais’s Hum If You Don’t Know the Words0
vloei/stof (Gilbert Gibson)0
Liminality in Tanzanian Young Adult fiction0
Sur l’afrofuturisme, la crise climatique, la toxicité et la magie dans Nos jours brûlés: Entretien avec Laura Nsafou0
La République Démocratique du Congo: dramaturgies du conflit (idées et formes)0
Reinaard die vos. ’n Vrye vertaling van Van den vos Reynaerde (H. J. Pieterse)0
Translation Flows: Exploring Networks of People, Processes and Products (Ilse Feinauer, Amanda Marais and Marius Swart, eds.)0
Om die “ruimland […] van nuuts af oop [te] bou”: ’n Woordjie oor Hein Willemse0
Landuit, want jy wil mos (Zirk van den Berg)0
Radikaal versus beskeie: Die vroegste vrouestemme teen patriargie in die Suid-Afrikaanse literatuursisteem0
Prins (Ryan Pedro)0
Stasies0
Atrium: Gedigte 1970–2025 (Marlise Joubert)0
Invention of boundaries and identity issues in the story of an anti-colonial war0
The state of Hausa children’s folktales and play-songs in Gombe, Nigeria0
Vuurvoël (Elmarie Viljoen-Massyn)0
Hemel en aarde en ons (Zirk van den Berg)0
Fear, haunting, and the (un)making of borders in Eugène Marais’s “Die huis van die vier winde”0
Kinderlê (Lynthia Julius)0
A feminist analysis of ‘Dhako en …’ (A woman is …) proverbs among the Luo community of Kenya0
Mirage (David Ralph Viviers)0
Doolhof (Rudie van Rensburg)0
Rainbows in Eastern African folktales: Oral narrative as ecocritical model0
Die grafdigter (Gerda Taljaard)0
Ilifa (Athambile Masola)0
Laaste kans (Marita van der Vyver)0
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