Tydskrif vir Letterkunde

Papers
(The TQCC 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Queer, Christian and Afrikaans: The libidinal, sexuality and religion in Kanarie and Skeef6
Teacherly aesthetics: Literature and literacy in Binyavanga Wainaina’s works4
Culture and Igbo notions of masculinity in Nigerian children’s literature4
Sons of Mud (Johan Vlok Louw)3
Folklore genre designation among the Manden peoples3
Religious metaphors and the crisis of faith in Wole Soyinka’s poetry3
Distinguishing between ontology and ‘decolonisation as praxis’3
Die intellektuele geskiedenis van bruin intelligentsia: ’n herbesoek aan P. J. Philander (1921–2006)3
Frottage: Frictions of Intimacy across the Black Diaspora (Keguro Macharia)3
Creative dynamism and religious syncretism in Igbo oral funeral songs2
And Wrote My Story Anyway: Black South African Women’s Novels as Feminism (Barbara Boswell)2
Staande ovasie (Herschelle Benjamin et al.)2
Unam Wena (Mthunzikazi A. Mbungwana)2
The History of Man (Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu)2
Dolf van Niekerk (1929-2022)2
’n Huldiging: Karel Schoeman—Stiltes en stemme (Willie Burger, red.)1
Decima1
Unheimlich moederland. (Anti-)Pastorale Letteren in Zuid-Afrika (Gitte Postel)1
Ontaard (Pieter Odendaal)1
The Black Register (Tendayi Sitholo)1
“It’s easy to just be normal”: Performative masculinities in Die stropers1
Vanden vos Reynaerde se transformasie tot Reinaard die Jakkals1
Spoke, liefde en geslagsgebaseerde geweld in “Die bouval op Wilgerdal”1
Swatland (Ashwin Arendse)1
Uit die kroes (Lynthia Julius)1
Van pelgrims en planete: ’n Onderhoud met Ingrid Winterbach1
Hein Willemse: Teen die grein / Against the grain1
Hullo, Bu-Bye, Koko, Come In (Koleka Putuma)1
Gospel Àpàlà music in African Christian worship: Thematic and stylistic analysis1
Christopher Lukorito Wanjala (1944–2018)1
Ama Ata Aidoo (1942–2023)1
Can Themba: The Making and Breaking of the Intellectual Tsotsi, a Biography (Siphiwo Mahala)1
grond/Santekraam en bientang: Gesitueer in globale swart seeroetes1
Everything is a Deathly Flower (Maneo Mohale)1
Alienation in Ntshavheni Alfred Milubi’s poetry0
Innovative register and feminist critique in Mark Behr’s The Smell of Apples0
A Hibiscus Coast (Nick Mulgrew)0
In-between spaces in Klara du Plessis’s Ekke: Identity, language and art0
Die teks as ’n etiese aanspraak0
’n Baie lang brief aan my dogter (Marita van der Vyver)0
Civilising Grass: The Art of the Lawn on the South African Highveld (Jonathan Cane)0
Tussenganger (Marius Crous)0
Speculative vertices, Ogun mythopoesis, and (the) fourth/further stage(s)0
Citizenship and social status in Miriam Tlali’s Muriel at Metropolitan0
La République Démocratique du Congo: dramaturgies du conflit (idées et formes)0
The state of Hausa children’s folktales and play-songs in Gombe, Nigeria0
The “African male literary tradition” and revisionist polemics in Isidore Okpewho’s writing0
’n Geskiedenis van Afrikaans as kerktaal: van altaar tot kansel0
Dwelm (Rudie van Rensburg)0
Gender and power as negotiated in Bukusu circumcision ceremonies0
Invention of boundaries and identity issues in the story of an anti-colonial war0
Kwaaiwater (Irna van Zyl)0
Transcendent Kingdom (Yaa Gyasi)0
Decolonisation as Democratisation: Global Insights into the South African Experience (Siseko Kumalo, ed.)0
Nature, Environment, and Activism in Nigerian Literature (Sule E. Egya)0
Each Mortal Thing (Michiel Heyns)0
The Eternal Audience of One (Rémy Ngamije)0
Die Alpe, anime en Afrikaans: “Heidi” as transnasionale teks en kultuurproduk0
Autobiographik in Afrika: Literaturgeschichte und Genrevielfalt (Susanne Gehrmann)0
Moederland (Madelein Rust)0
Sanctum (Joan Hambidge)0
Simoelégri: Stad van onrus (Jaco Fouché)0
Ilifa (Athambile Masola)0
Gebeente0
Radikaal versus beskeie: Die vroegste vrouestemme teen patriargie in die Suid-Afrikaanse literatuursisteem0
In praise of Ịjọ folklore: A Sailor’s Son by Christian Otobotekere0
Return to the Scene of the Crime: The Returnee Detective and Postcolonial Detective Fiction (Kamil Naicker)0
Duifeling (Lize Albertyn du-Toit)0
The Promise (Damon Galgut)0
Weerskyn (Alwyn Roux)0
African speculative fiction as Indigenous remembering: Contrasting stories by Jonathan Dotse and Masima Musodza0
Beertjie en sy boytjies (R.R. Ryger)0
Gender and the Spatiality of Blackness in Contemporary AfroFrench Narratives (Polo B. Moji)0
Proximate historiographies in Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi’s Kintu0
Narreskip (Johan Myburgh)0
Plaasfeminism in Ronelda S. Kamfer’s Kompoun (2021)0
Journals editing, editor recognition, and impacting disciplines0
Ek is Hendrik Witbooi (Conny Braam)0
The world is a bar: Fiston Mwanza Mujila’s writing beyond ‘Africa’0
Mobilities and Cosmopolitanisms in African and Afrodiasporic Literatures (Anna-Leena Toivanen)0
Native Life in the Third Millennium (Masande Ntshanga)0
Exploring ecofeminism, ecocriticism, aquapoetics, and environmental humanities in Gabeba Baderoon’s poetry0
Innie Shadows (Olivia M. Coetzee)0
War and the subaltern: Voice as power in Buchi Emecheta’s Destination Biafra0
Liminality in Tanzanian Young Adult fiction0
Womanism in Crépuscule du tourment: Mélancolie by Léonora Miano0
Orisa Sanponna: Indigenous health systems, disability, and morality in Osofisan’s dramaturgy0
New Afrikaans-language cinemas / Nuwe Afrikaanstalige rolprentrigtings0
Eastern African women writers' 'national epics': A new force in creative fiction?0
Alfred Schaffer, Shaka en die transnasionalisme0
Tracing the (Post)Apartheid Novel beyond 2000 (Danyela Dimakatso Demir & Olivier Moreillon, eds.)0
Churchill Show: Transgressing language codes and upsetting stereotypes0
Hemel en aarde en ons (Zirk van den Berg)0
Queer Bodies in African Films (Gibson Ncube)0
The Pride of Noonlay (Shanice Ndlovu)0
Die afbakening van die kern van die Afrikaanse poësiesisteem (2000–2022)0
Dockside Reading: Hydrocolonialism and the Custom House (Isabel Hofmeyr)0
The power of exclusion in the works of André Brink and Assia Djebar0
Sexual Humour in Africa: Gender, Jokes, and Societal Change (Ignatius Chukwumah, ed.)0
Aardling (Zandra Bezuidenhout)0
Hou jou oë oop (Brian Fredericks)0
Metatextualities in the Kenyan Swahili novel: A case study reading of Kyallo Wamitila’s Dharau ya Ini0
Laaste kans (Marita van der Vyver)0
Translation Flows: Exploring Networks of People, Processes and Products (Ilse Feinauer, Amanda Marais and Marius Swart, eds.)0
(East) African postcolonial ecocriticism: Revisiting Okot p’ Bitek’s Song of Prisoner0
Battling statues enter into dialogue at the Gouvernorat du Haut-Katanga0
Euphrase Kezilahabi (1944–2020)0
Soe rond ommie bos (Veronique Jephtas)0
’n Onderhoud met Kirby van der Merwe oor Eugene0
Language, education, and transformation in Bianca Marais’s Hum If You Don’t Know the Words0
Plunder (Antjie Krog)0
Slow beauty: Refocusing Oliver Hermanus’s Skoonheid through a slow cinema lens0
Die kapokdokter (François Loots)0
The seeing eye, the narrating I: Animals in Eben Venter’s Decima (2023)0
Queer African Cinemas (Lindsey B. Green-Simms)0
Duimnaelsketse (Johann de Lange)0
Performance in propitiatory reconciliation among the Nandi community0
Nou in infrarooi (Tom Dreyer)0
Masking death: Covid-19 inspired humour in the everyday orality of a Luo community in Kenya0
Van vaders en vlugtelinge (S. J. Naudé)0
Malibongwe (Sono Molefe, ed.)0
In die rede geval: Waarom die mens mites maak (Charl-Pierre Naudé)0
Sydney Clouts’s poetry: Looking inwards, looking outwards0
’n Feministiese ondersoek na Bettina Wyngaard se misdaadfiksie0
Deelfontein (Nicole Jaekel Strauss)0
Les traductions des œuvres littéraires de langue française en Afrique du Sud0
Sluitstuk (Johann Rossouw)0
The post-heroism of Stuur Groete aan Mannetjies Roux and Verraaiers0
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Doolhof (Rudie van Rensburg)0
Nomadiese sterre (Joan Hambidge)0
To listen with decolonial ears: Hein Willemse, hidden histories, and the politics of disruptive intervention0
Voorgevoelens, vertolkings en verklarings: resepsie van ’n 19de-eeuse ǀxam-kum0
Aan ’n beentjie sit en kluif (Marius Crous)0
Soekenjin0
Surfacing: On Being Black and Feminist in South Africa (Desiree Lewis & Gabeba Baderoon, eds.)0
Preliminary notes on topicality and recent pandemic poetry0
As die katjiepiering blom (Audrey Jantjies)0
Die man wattie kinnes vang (Nathan Trantraal)0
Die lewe is 'n asem lank: Gedigte oor verlies en vertroosting (Frieda van den Heever, red.)0
Die vermeldingsnetwerk van gekanoniseerde Afrikaanse skrywers in die Afrikaanse literatuurstudie (2000–2020)0
Ons skulde (P. P. Fourie)0
Op pad na Moormansgat (Chris Karsten)0
Die laaste kanariegeel notaboek0
Fiction as prosthesis: Reading the contemporary African queer short story0
Transitions, transformations, and translocations of African oral literature in the 21st century0
Fool's Gold (Arja Salafranca, ed.)0
Scripting Shame in African Literature (Stephen Bishop)0
'n Hart is so groot soos 'n vuis (P. P. Fourie)0
Interseksionele feminisme in Afrikaanse poësie: Lynthia Julius se Uit die kroes0
Hein Willemse: Select bibliography0
Stories of Fathers, Stories of the Nation: Fatherhood and Paternal Power in South African Literature (Grant Andrews)0
Die melkweg en die miskruier0
Dolf van Niekerk (1929-2022)0
Rethinking Literature: My Personal Essays on a Troubled Discipline (Henry Indangasi)0
Orality in Yorùbá films: A study of selected films of Akínwùmí Iṣọ̀lá0
Buried Treasure (Sven Axelrad)0
No Cold Kitchen. A Biography of Nadine Gordimer (Ronald Suresh Roberts)0
Grief, resurrection, and the Nigerian Civil War in Isidore Diala’s The Lure of Ash0
bottelnek breek bek (Dianne Du Toit Albertze)0
Variations in the application of the components of the oral performance to Yoruba chants0
Dreaming in Colour (Uvile Ximba)0
Afrika-oraliteit by Eugène Marais: die wisselwerking tussen enkele “Sangedigte” en Dwaalstories0
East African Literature and the Gandasation of Metropolitan Language – Reading from Jennifer Makumbi’s Kintu0
Leo.0
Aanspreekliheid (Jaco Fouché)0
Imagining the Kenyan Canaan dream journey in cyber space0
The construction of split whiteness in the queer films Kanarie (2018) and Moffie (2019)0
Don Jadu (S.E.K. Mqhyai)0
Lesser Violence: Volume 1 (Amie Soudien, ed.)0
Some new perspectives on the Soweto uprising: H. M. L. Lentsoane’s poem “Black Wednesday” (“Laboraro le lesoleso”)0
Die groot avontuur: Wondere van die lewe op aarde (Leon Rousseau)0
Die laaste kanariegeel notaboek (Anchien Troskie)0
Desmond T. Cole (1922–2018)0
Al wat tel (Irma Venter)0
Dol heuning (S. J. Naudé)0
Om die “ruimland […] van nuuts af oop [te] bou”: ’n Woordjie oor Hein Willemse0
Flânerie in Valerie Tagwira’s The Uncertainty of Hope0
Mirage (David Ralph Viviers)0
As die Cape Flats kon praat (Brian Fredericks)0
Sarraounia, love, and the postcolony0
Vuurvoël (Elmarie Viljoen-Massyn)0
Richard Green in South African Film: Forging Creative New Directions (Keyan G. Tomaselli and Richard Green)0
A feminist analysis of ‘Dhako en …’ (A woman is …) proverbs among the Luo community of Kenya0
Kraai (George Louw)0
African(a) Queer Presence: Ethics and Politics of Negotiation (S.N. Nyeck)0
Euphrase Kezilahabi (1944-2020)0
Nêrens, Noord-Kaap (Nico Scheepers)0
Vin (Lien Botha)0
’n Huldiging. Digter van die kwiksilwerwoord: InaRousseau (Daniel Hugo, red.)0
Transnasionale ontlaering / Transnational unlaagering0
Post-Apartheid Same-Sex Sexualities: Restless Identities in Literary and Visual Culture (Andy `Carolin)0
Inkwenkwezi efihlakeleyo (K. Sello Duiker, translated by Xolisa Guzula)0
Botswana Women Write (Maitseo M.M Bolaane, Mary S. Lederer, Leloba S. Molema and Connie Rapoo, eds,)0
Ver in die wêreld (Frederik de Jager, samest.)0
Vier susters (Gerda Taljaard)0
Convivial Worlds: Writing Relation from Africa (Tina Steiner)0
Towards reconstructing Africa: Recuperation and responsibility in Ayi Kwei Armah’s The Healers0
Bot (Carien Smith)0
Ons het ver […] versit: Gedigte, toesprake, onderhoude, met ’n essay deur Hein Willemse (Patrick J. Petersen)0
Die soeke na 'n onbegrensdheid van verbeelding: 'n Onderhoud met Alfred Schaffer0
“’n Koningin volg hom”: Volkome vrou (1976) as antifeministiese agent0
Metaphor patterns in Sesotho fiction: The case of the novel Chaka0
James Stephen Mzilikazi Khumalo (1932–2021)0
Help, help0
Will, the Passenger Delaying Flight… (Barbara Adair)0
met die oog op more: ’n versdrama (Antjie Krog)0
Un futur qui manque: sur quelques pièces de théâtre togolaises0
Reinaard die vos. ’n Vrye vertaling van Van den vos Reynaerde (H. J. Pieterse)0
Speculative fiction and African urban futures: Reading Imagine Africa 5000
Diana se dag (Helene de Kock)0
kosmos en komete (kaalwoorde/Ané Kotzé)0
Pienk ceramic-hondjies (Ryan Pedro)0
In die gees van die Dionisiese: Marlene van Niekerk se aanhangersbrief aan Freddy Mercury0
Geheim van die gruwelsand (Zirk van den Berg)0
Gewete, transformasie en herinnering op die Rooiplein0
Eugene (Kirby van der Merwe)0
’n Interseksionele ondersoek: Godsdiens, feminisme, identiteit en behoort in geselekteerde digbundels0
At Penpoint: African Literatures, Postcolonial Studies and the Cold War (Monica Popescu)0
Foundational African Writers: Peter Abrahams, Noni Jabavu, Sibusiso Nyembezi & Es’kia Mphahlele (Bhekizizwe Peterson, Khwezi Mkhize & Makhosazana Xaba, reds.)0
Kinderlê (Lynthia Julius)0
Stasies0
Une si tendre critique: L’Afrique des écrivains migrants d’origine congolaise en Belgique francophone0
African Performance Arts and Political Acts (Naomi André, Yolanda Covington-Ward & Jendele Hungbo, eds.)0
Hulle noem haar Carminda0
Oral performance as substitute for ritual: Ekutet, a Teso exhumation ceremony0
Social commentary in the song “Chineke doo” by Sam Ojukwu0
“We’ve had enough of being trapped in this derelict pondok of history”: An interview with Zoë Wicomb0
an/other pastoral (Tjawangwa Dema)0
Stand-up documentary: An emerging narrative device in Yvonne Orji’s comedy0
Relasionele ontologie en posthumanistiese subjektiwiteit in Pieter Odendaal se poësiedebuut0
Feminismes en Suid-Afrikaanse letterkundes / Feminisms and South African literatures0
Coming to Afrikaans0
The Garment Workers’ Union’s Pageant of Unity (1940) as manifestation of transnational working-class culture0
Comparative analysis of black queer feminist isiXhosa and English poetry0
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