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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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Folklore genre designation among the Manden peoples6
Religious metaphors and the crisis of faith in Wole Soyinka’s poetry3
“The future is often the past in a different font”: An interview with Osahon Ize-Iyamu3
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
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
Creative dynamism and religious syncretism in Igbo oral funeral songs2
Spoke, liefde en geslagsgebaseerde geweld in “Die bouval op Wilgerdal”1
Vanden vos Reynaerde se transformasie tot Reinaard die Jakkals1
Hullo, Bu-Bye, Koko, Come In (Koleka Putuma)1
“It’s easy to just be normal”: Performative masculinities in Die stropers1
Social commentary in the song “Chineke doo” by Sam Ojukwu1
Hein Willemse: Select bibliography1
Récits de vie au Burkina Faso: Enjeux, rhétorique, réception (Edgard Sankara)1
’n Huldiging: Karel Schoeman—Stiltes en stemme (Willie Burger, red.)1
Ama Ata Aidoo (1942–2023)1
Ontaard (Pieter Odendaal)1
Queer Bodies in African Films (Gibson Ncube)1
Hein Willemse: Teen die grein / Against the grain1
Orisa Sanponna: Indigenous health systems, disability, and morality in Osofisan’s dramaturgy1
Gospel Àpàlà music in African Christian worship: Thematic and stylistic analysis1
Decima1
Dolf van Niekerk (1929-2022)1
Liens et dialogues insulaires dans l’océan Indien: des textes poético-critiques au roman mauricien1
Can Themba: The Making and Breaking of the Intellectual Tsotsi, a Biography (Siphiwo Mahala)1
Mobilities and Cosmopolitanisms in African and Afrodiasporic Literatures (Anna-Leena Toivanen)1
Swatland (Ashwin Arendse)1
Gender and power as negotiated in Bukusu circumcision ceremonies0
Mens en klimaat soos uitgebeeld deur Katherine Graham en Abraham H. de Vries0
Hemel en aarde en ons (Zirk van den Berg)0
Le pasteur, les bovidés et l’environnement dans la tradition orale peule0
Simoelégri: Stad van onrus (Jaco Fouché)0
’n Geskiedenis van Afrikaans as kerktaal: van altaar tot kansel0
Surfacing: On Being Black and Feminist in South Africa (Desiree Lewis & Gabeba Baderoon, eds.)0
Die dood van Rachel April (P. P. Fourie)0
Reinaard die vos. ’n Vrye vertaling van Van den vos Reynaerde (H. J. Pieterse)0
Die melkweg en die miskruier0
Die laaste kanariegeel notaboek0
Relasionele ontologie en posthumanistiese subjektiwiteit in Pieter Odendaal se poësiedebuut0
Binnerym van bloed (Antjie Krog)0
La République Démocratique du Congo: dramaturgies du conflit (idées et formes)0
The post-heroism of Stuur Groete aan Mannetjies Roux and Verraaiers0
Bloedsomer (Sidney Gilroy)0
Each Mortal Thing (Michiel Heyns)0
om my kastele in Spanje te sloop (Jaco Barnard-Naudé)0
Some new perspectives on the Soweto uprising: H. M. L. Lentsoane’s poem “Black Wednesday” (“Laboraro le lesoleso”)0
Variations in the application of the components of the oral performance to Yoruba chants0
Al wat tel (Irma Venter)0
In die gees van die Dionisiese: Marlene van Niekerk se aanhangersbrief aan Freddy Mercury0
Landuit, want jy wil mos (Zirk van den Berg)0
Plunder (Antjie Krog)0
Journals editing, editor recognition, and impacting disciplines0
In die rede geval: Waarom die mens mites maak (Charl-Pierre Naudé)0
Queer African Cinemas (Lindsey B. Green-Simms)0
Ver in die wêreld (Frederik de Jager, samest.)0
Alienation in Ntshavheni Alfred Milubi’s poetry0
Sur l’afrofuturisme, la crise climatique, la toxicité et la magie dans Nos jours brûlés: Entretien avec Laura Nsafou0
Rainbows in Eastern African folktales: Oral narrative as ecocritical model0
’n Huldiging: Antjie Krog: ’n Ondersoekte lewe (Louise Viljoen, red.)0
Invention of boundaries and identity issues in the story of an anti-colonial war0
Dolf van Niekerk (1929-2022)0
The seeing eye, the narrating I: Animals in Eben Venter’s Decima (2023)0
Nou in infrarooi (Tom Dreyer)0
Nomadiese sterre (Joan Hambidge)0
Die lewe is 'n asem lank: Gedigte oor verlies en vertroosting (Frieda van den Heever, red.)0
A feminist analysis of ‘Dhako en …’ (A woman is …) proverbs among the Luo community of Kenya0
Étiologie des métamorphoses du vivant: Le sceau prémonitoire des chauves-souris0
Tracing the (Post)Apartheid Novel beyond 2000 (Danyela Dimakatso Demir & Olivier Moreillon, eds.)0
Moederland (Madelein Rust)0
In praise of Ịjọ folklore: A Sailor’s Son by Christian Otobotekere0
Sarraounia, love, and the postcolony0
Feminismes en Suid-Afrikaanse letterkundes / Feminisms and South African literatures0
Translation Flows: Exploring Networks of People, Processes and Products (Ilse Feinauer, Amanda Marais and Marius Swart, eds.)0
Masking death: Covid-19 inspired humour in the everyday orality of a Luo community in Kenya0
’n Feministiese ondersoek na Bettina Wyngaard se misdaadfiksie0
Ons het ver […] versit: Gedigte, toesprake, onderhoude, met ’n essay deur Hein Willemse (Patrick J. Petersen)0
Citizenship and social status in Miriam Tlali’s Muriel at Metropolitan0
Lesser Violence: Volume 1 (Amie Soudien, ed.)0
Petrocapitalism, displacement, and (im)mobilities in Imbolo Mbue’s How Beautiful We Were0
Mirage (David Ralph Viviers)0
Réinventer l’avenir global dans Rouge impératrice de Léonora Miano: entre afrofuturisme et écotopie0
Om die “ruimland […] van nuuts af oop [te] bou”: ’n Woordjie oor Hein Willemse0
’n Huldiging. Digter van die kwiksilwerwoord: InaRousseau (Daniel Hugo, red.)0
Language, education, and transformation in Bianca Marais’s Hum If You Don’t Know the Words0
Towards reconstructing Africa: Recuperation and responsibility in Ayi Kwei Armah’s The Healers0
Ons skulde (P. P. Fourie)0
At Penpoint: African Literatures, Postcolonial Studies and the Cold War (Monica Popescu)0
Hou jou oë oop (Brian Fredericks)0
Sluitstuk (Johann Rossouw)0
James Stephen Mzilikazi Khumalo (1932–2021)0
Don Jadu (S.E.K. Mqhyai)0
Laaste kans (Marita van der Vyver)0
An ecocritical reading of Okot p’Bitek’s “Chameleon and Elephant”0
Return to the Scene of the Crime: The Returnee Detective and Postcolonial Detective Fiction (Kamil Naicker)0
Gods, music and rainmaking in Yorùbáland0
erf en elders (Kleinboer)0
African Performance Arts and Political Acts (Naomi André, Yolanda Covington-Ward & Jendele Hungbo, eds.)0
met die oog op more: ’n versdrama (Antjie Krog)0
’n Interseksionele ondersoek: Godsdiens, feminisme, identiteit en behoort in geselekteerde digbundels0
Die afbakening van die kern van die Afrikaanse poësiesisteem (2000–2022)0
Richard Green in South African Film: Forging Creative New Directions (Keyan G. Tomaselli and Richard Green)0
Ilifa (Athambile Masola)0
Foundational African Writers: Peter Abrahams, Noni Jabavu, Sibusiso Nyembezi & Es’kia Mphahlele (Bhekizizwe Peterson, Khwezi Mkhize & Makhosazana Xaba, reds.)0
My jaar van vrees en vryheid (Marita van der Vyver)0
Die onsigbare (P. J. O. Jonker)0
The environmental crisis and African women’s displacements in War Girls by Tochi Onyebuchi0
Prins (Ryan Pedro)0
“’n Koningin volg hom”: Volkome vrou (1976) as antifeministiese agent0
Stories of Fathers, Stories of the Nation: Fatherhood and Paternal Power in South African Literature (Grant Andrews)0
Laatnageilande (Marlise Joubert)0
Landscape histories: Origin narratives and toponyms in the rural commune of Liboré, Niger0
Verbal art in the ecological discourse of two Amazigh/Berber documentaries0
Metaphor patterns in Sesotho fiction: The case of the novel Chaka0
Innovative register and feminist critique in Mark Behr’s The Smell of Apples0
Les traductions des œuvres littéraires de langue française en Afrique du Sud0
Dockside Reading: Hydrocolonialism and the Custom House (Isabel Hofmeyr)0
Euphrase Kezilahabi (1944-2020)0
Deelfontein (Nicole Jaekel Strauss)0
Sirkelgang (Johann Lodewyk Marais)0
Figures de la subjectivité dans Captive, une autofiction de Nadine Ndjomo0
Duifeling (Lize Albertyn du-Toit)0
Performance in propitiatory reconciliation among the Nandi community0
Dwelm (Rudie van Rensburg)0
Preliminary notes on topicality and recent pandemic poetry0
Weerskyn (Alwyn Roux)0
Desmond T. Cole (1922–2018)0
New Afrikaans-language cinemas / Nuwe Afrikaanstalige rolprentrigtings0
Autobiographik in Afrika: Literaturgeschichte und Genrevielfalt (Susanne Gehrmann)0
Doolhof (Rudie van Rensburg)0
Oral performance as substitute for ritual: Ekutet, a Teso exhumation ceremony0
Sexual Humour in Africa: Gender, Jokes, and Societal Change (Ignatius Chukwumah, ed.)0
Leo.0
Die kapokdokter (François Loots)0
ek en jy bestaan nie (Danie Marais)0
Humans and non-humans in African verbal arts: Narrativity and environmental poetics at the dawn of the climate crisis—Introduction0
Die teks as ’n etiese aanspraak0
Bonsaimeisies (Erla Diedericks)0
Die man wattie kinnes vang (Nathan Trantraal)0
Gebeente0
kosmos en komete (kaalwoorde/Ané Kotzé)0
Capitalism against the planet: Posthuman ecocriticism in Alistair Mackay’s It Doesn’t Have To Be This Way0
Battling statues enter into dialogue at the Gouvernorat du Haut-Katanga0
Transitions, transformations, and translocations of African oral literature in the 21st century0
African speculative fiction as Indigenous remembering: Contrasting stories by Jonathan Dotse and Masima Musodza0
Diana se dag (Helene de Kock)0
Afrika-oraliteit by Eugène Marais: die wisselwerking tussen enkele “Sangedigte” en Dwaalstories0
As die katjiepiering blom (Audrey Jantjies)0
Vier susters (Gerda Taljaard)0
Fear, haunting, and the (un)making of borders in Eugène Marais’s “Die huis van die vier winde”0
Eugene (Kirby van der Merwe)0
Patmos: ’n novelle (Willem Anker)0
’n Baie lang brief aan my dogter (Marita van der Vyver)0
Eastern African women writers' 'national epics': A new force in creative fiction?0
To listen with decolonial ears: Hein Willemse, hidden histories, and the politics of disruptive intervention0
bottelnek breek bek (Dianne Du Toit Albertze)0
Relations between humans and non-humans in Amazigh North African oral literature0
Genres of displacement: Rewriting environmental crisis from the African continent / Genres du déplacement : réécrire la crise environnementale depuis le continent africain0
Fuelling Bodies: Movement, embodiment, and climate crisis in Wanuri Kahiu’s Pumzi0
From rain-bringer to wealth-giver: Changing forms of the snake in southern African belief systems0
Orality in Yorùbá films: A study of selected films of Akínwùmí Iṣọ̀lá0
Help, help0
Stand-up documentary: An emerging narrative device in Yvonne Orji’s comedy0
A corpse is also a garden (Pieter Madibuseng Odendaal)0
Desire at the End of the White Line: Notes on the Decolonisation of White Afrikaner Femininity (Azille Coetzee)0
Liminality in Tanzanian Young Adult fiction0
Die laaste kanariegeel notaboek (Anchien Troskie)0
Buried Treasure (Sven Axelrad)0
Convivial Worlds: Writing Relation from Africa (Tina Steiner)0
The Promise (Damon Galgut)0
Narreskip (Johan Myburgh)0
Dreaming in Colour (Uvile Ximba)0
an/other pastoral (Tjawangwa Dema)0
Interseksionele feminisme in Afrikaanse poësie: Lynthia Julius se Uit die kroes0
Gewete, transformasie en herinnering op die Rooiplein0
Comparative analysis of black queer feminist isiXhosa and English poetry0
Un futur qui manque: sur quelques pièces de théâtre togolaises0
The state of Hausa children’s folktales and play-songs in Gombe, Nigeria0
Radikaal versus beskeie: Die vroegste vrouestemme teen patriargie in die Suid-Afrikaanse literatuursisteem0
Sanctum (Joan Hambidge)0
Stasies0
’n Onderhoud met Kirby van der Merwe oor Eugene0
Kinderlê (Lynthia Julius)0
Hulle noem haar Carminda0
Vuurvoël (Elmarie Viljoen-Massyn)0
Gender and the Spatiality of Blackness in Contemporary AfroFrench Narratives (Polo B. Moji)0
Kwaaiwater (Irna van Zyl)0
Geheim van die gruwelsand (Zirk van den Berg)0
The Pride of Noonlay (Shanice Ndlovu)0
Bot (Carien Smith)0
Inkwenkwezi efihlakeleyo (K. Sello Duiker, translated by Xolisa Guzula)0
The world is a bar: Fiston Mwanza Mujila’s writing beyond ‘Africa’0
Die grafdigter (Gerda Taljaard)0
Coming to Afrikaans0
’n Interseksionele lesing van Lynthia Julius se Kinderlê0
African(a) Queer Presence: Ethics and Politics of Negotiation (S.N. Nyeck)0
Op pad na Moormansgat (Chris Karsten)0
The power of exclusion in the works of André Brink and Assia Djebar0
Exploring ecofeminism, ecocriticism, aquapoetics, and environmental humanities in Gabeba Baderoon’s poetry0
A Hibiscus Coast (Nick Mulgrew)0
Soekenjin0
Van vaders en vlugtelinge (S. J. Naudé)0
Womanism in Crépuscule du tourment: Mélancolie by Léonora Miano0
Slow beauty: Refocusing Oliver Hermanus’s Skoonheid through a slow cinema lens0
Waterman (Herman Wasserman)0
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