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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
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Folklore genre designation among the Manden peoples6
Culture and Igbo notions of masculinity in Nigerian children’s literature5
“The future is often the past in a different font”: An interview with Osahon Ize-Iyamu4
Queer, Christian and Afrikaans: The libidinal, sexuality and religion in Kanarie and Skeef4
Sons of Mud (Johan Vlok Louw)3
From slave trade to fuel tanks: On Benin’s colonial displacements3
Staande ovasie (Herschelle Benjamin et al.)2
Toxic mobilities and the politics of unending in Henrietta Rose-Innes’s “Poison”2
Unam Wena (Mthunzikazi A. Mbungwana)2
Religious metaphors and the crisis of faith in Wole Soyinka’s poetry2
The History of Man (Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu)2
Die intellektuele geskiedenis van bruin intelligentsia: ’n herbesoek aan P. J. Philander (1921–2006)2
“It’s easy to just be normal”: Performative masculinities in Die stropers1
Queer Bodies in African Films (Gibson Ncube)1
Creative dynamism and religious syncretism in Igbo oral funeral songs1
Hullo, Bu-Bye, Koko, Come In (Koleka Putuma)1
Spoke, liefde en geslagsgebaseerde geweld in “Die bouval op Wilgerdal”1
Récits de vie au Burkina Faso: Enjeux, rhétorique, réception (Edgard Sankara)1
Ontaard (Pieter Odendaal)1
Unheimlich moederland. (Anti-)Pastorale Letteren in Zuid-Afrika (Gitte Postel)1
Dolf van Niekerk (1929-2022)1
Gospel Àpàlà music in African Christian worship: Thematic and stylistic analysis1
Vanden vos Reynaerde se transformasie tot Reinaard die Jakkals1
Swatland (Ashwin Arendse)1
grond/Santekraam en bientang: Gesitueer in globale swart seeroetes1
Decima1
’n Huldiging: Karel Schoeman—Stiltes en stemme (Willie Burger, red.)1
Ama Ata Aidoo (1942–2023)1
Orisa Sanponna: Indigenous health systems, disability, and morality in Osofisan’s dramaturgy0
Help, help0
Beertjie en sy boytjies (R.R. Ryger)0
Fiction as prosthesis: Reading the contemporary African queer short story0
Die afbakening van die kern van die Afrikaanse poësiesisteem (2000–2022)0
Masking death: Covid-19 inspired humour in the everyday orality of a Luo community in Kenya0
Plaasfeminism in Ronelda S. Kamfer’s Kompoun (2021)0
Battling statues enter into dialogue at the Gouvernorat du Haut-Katanga0
The environmental crisis and African women’s displacements in War Girls by Tochi Onyebuchi0
Alienation in Ntshavheni Alfred Milubi’s poetry0
Dolf van Niekerk (1929-2022)0
Deelfontein (Nicole Jaekel Strauss)0
Die lewe is 'n asem lank: Gedigte oor verlies en vertroosting (Frieda van den Heever, red.)0
Flânerie in Valerie Tagwira’s The Uncertainty of Hope0
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Translation Flows: Exploring Networks of People, Processes and Products (Ilse Feinauer, Amanda Marais and Marius Swart, eds.)0
Ons het ver […] versit: Gedigte, toesprake, onderhoude, met ’n essay deur Hein Willemse (Patrick J. Petersen)0
Language, education, and transformation in Bianca Marais’s Hum If You Don’t Know the Words0
Innovative register and feminist critique in Mark Behr’s The Smell of Apples0
Vuurvoël (Elmarie Viljoen-Massyn)0
African speculative fiction as Indigenous remembering: Contrasting stories by Jonathan Dotse and Masima Musodza0
Coming to Afrikaans0
’n Onderhoud met Kirby van der Merwe oor Eugene0
Réinventer l’avenir global dans Rouge impératrice de Léonora Miano: entre afrofuturisme et écotopie0
Invention of boundaries and identity issues in the story of an anti-colonial war0
Euphrase Kezilahabi (1944-2020)0
Soekenjin0
Sexual Humour in Africa: Gender, Jokes, and Societal Change (Ignatius Chukwumah, ed.)0
Citizenship and social status in Miriam Tlali’s Muriel at Metropolitan0
Op pad na Moormansgat (Chris Karsten)0
The Eternal Audience of One (Rémy Ngamije)0
Inkwenkwezi efihlakeleyo (K. Sello Duiker, translated by Xolisa Guzula)0
Eugene (Kirby van der Merwe)0
Queer African Cinemas (Lindsey B. Green-Simms)0
Return to the Scene of the Crime: The Returnee Detective and Postcolonial Detective Fiction (Kamil Naicker)0
Hemel en aarde en ons (Zirk van den Berg)0
’n Huldiging. Digter van die kwiksilwerwoord: InaRousseau (Daniel Hugo, red.)0
African Performance Arts and Political Acts (Naomi André, Yolanda Covington-Ward & Jendele Hungbo, eds.)0
Die melkweg en die miskruier0
Die soeke na 'n onbegrensdheid van verbeelding: 'n Onderhoud met Alfred Schaffer0
Womanism in Crépuscule du tourment: Mélancolie by Léonora Miano0
The Promise (Damon Galgut)0
Dwelm (Rudie van Rensburg)0
Variations in the application of the components of the oral performance to Yoruba chants0
The post-heroism of Stuur Groete aan Mannetjies Roux and Verraaiers0
As die katjiepiering blom (Audrey Jantjies)0
“’n Koningin volg hom”: Volkome vrou (1976) as antifeministiese agent0
The state of Hausa children’s folktales and play-songs in Gombe, Nigeria0
’n Baie lang brief aan my dogter (Marita van der Vyver)0
Die Alpe, anime en Afrikaans: “Heidi” as transnasionale teks en kultuurproduk0
Bloedsomer (Sidney Gilroy)0
Slow beauty: Refocusing Oliver Hermanus’s Skoonheid through a slow cinema lens0
Van vaders en vlugtelinge (S. J. Naudé)0
Liminality in Tanzanian Young Adult fiction0
In die rede geval: Waarom die mens mites maak (Charl-Pierre Naudé)0
Can Themba: The Making and Breaking of the Intellectual Tsotsi, a Biography (Siphiwo Mahala)0
Sirkelgang (Johann Lodewyk Marais)0
The construction of split whiteness in the queer films Kanarie (2018) and Moffie (2019)0
Ver in die wêreld (Frederik de Jager, samest.)0
’n Interseksionele ondersoek: Godsdiens, feminisme, identiteit en behoort in geselekteerde digbundels0
Alfred Schaffer, Shaka en die transnasionalisme0
Van pelgrims en planete: ’n Onderhoud met Ingrid Winterbach0
The Garment Workers’ Union’s Pageant of Unity (1940) as manifestation of transnational working-class culture0
Performance in propitiatory reconciliation among the Nandi community0
In die gees van die Dionisiese: Marlene van Niekerk se aanhangersbrief aan Freddy Mercury0
Laatnageilande (Marlise Joubert)0
Scripting Shame in African Literature (Stephen Bishop)0
’n Huldiging: Antjie Krog: ’n Ondersoekte lewe (Louise Viljoen, red.)0
As die Cape Flats kon praat (Brian Fredericks)0
Some new perspectives on the Soweto uprising: H. M. L. Lentsoane’s poem “Black Wednesday” (“Laboraro le lesoleso”)0
African(a) Queer Presence: Ethics and Politics of Negotiation (S.N. Nyeck)0
Duifeling (Lize Albertyn du-Toit)0
Nêrens, Noord-Kaap (Nico Scheepers)0
Reinaard die vos. ’n Vrye vertaling van Van den vos Reynaerde (H. J. Pieterse)0
The “African male literary tradition” and revisionist polemics in Isidore Okpewho’s writing0
Aardling (Zandra Bezuidenhout)0
Tracing the (Post)Apartheid Novel beyond 2000 (Danyela Dimakatso Demir & Olivier Moreillon, eds.)0
The Pride of Noonlay (Shanice Ndlovu)0
Sanctum (Joan Hambidge)0
Stasies0
bottelnek breek bek (Dianne Du Toit Albertze)0
Petrocapitalism, displacement, and (im)mobilities in Imbolo Mbue’s How Beautiful We Were0
Kinderlê (Lynthia Julius)0
Gender and the Spatiality of Blackness in Contemporary AfroFrench Narratives (Polo B. Moji)0
Metaphor patterns in Sesotho fiction: The case of the novel Chaka0
A feminist analysis of ‘Dhako en …’ (A woman is …) proverbs among the Luo community of Kenya0
Decolonisation as Democratisation: Global Insights into the South African Experience (Siseko Kumalo, ed.)0
Die vermeldingsnetwerk van gekanoniseerde Afrikaanse skrywers in die Afrikaanse literatuurstudie (2000–2020)0
Lesser Violence: Volume 1 (Amie Soudien, ed.)0
Civilising Grass: The Art of the Lawn on the South African Highveld (Jonathan Cane)0
Oral performance as substitute for ritual: Ekutet, a Teso exhumation ceremony0
Feminismes en Suid-Afrikaanse letterkundes / Feminisms and South African literatures0
’n Feministiese ondersoek na Bettina Wyngaard se misdaadfiksie0
James Stephen Mzilikazi Khumalo (1932–2021)0
Al wat tel (Irma Venter)0
Die groot avontuur: Wondere van die lewe op aarde (Leon Rousseau)0
Buried Treasure (Sven Axelrad)0
Exploring ecofeminism, ecocriticism, aquapoetics, and environmental humanities in Gabeba Baderoon’s poetry0
Moederland (Madelein Rust)0
Journals editing, editor recognition, and impacting disciplines0
Vin (Lien Botha)0
To listen with decolonial ears: Hein Willemse, hidden histories, and the politics of disruptive intervention0
At Penpoint: African Literatures, Postcolonial Studies and the Cold War (Monica Popescu)0
Vier susters (Gerda Taljaard)0
La République Démocratique du Congo: dramaturgies du conflit (idées et formes)0
Kraai (George Louw)0
Die laaste kanariegeel notaboek0
Afrika-oraliteit by Eugène Marais: die wisselwerking tussen enkele “Sangedigte” en Dwaalstories0
Voorgevoelens, vertolkings en verklarings: resepsie van ’n 19de-eeuse ǀxam-kum0
Bot (Carien Smith)0
Richard Green in South African Film: Forging Creative New Directions (Keyan G. Tomaselli and Richard Green)0
Convivial Worlds: Writing Relation from Africa (Tina Steiner)0
Hein Willemse: Select bibliography0
Transitions, transformations, and translocations of African oral literature in the 21st century0
Ons skulde (P. P. Fourie)0
’n Geskiedenis van Afrikaans as kerktaal: van altaar tot kansel0
Une si tendre critique: L’Afrique des écrivains migrants d’origine congolaise en Belgique francophone0
Mobilities and Cosmopolitanisms in African and Afrodiasporic Literatures (Anna-Leena Toivanen)0
Geheim van die gruwelsand (Zirk van den Berg)0
Sydney Clouts’s poetry: Looking inwards, looking outwards0
Each Mortal Thing (Michiel Heyns)0
Mens en klimaat soos uitgebeeld deur Katherine Graham en Abraham H. de Vries0
Hein Willemse: Teen die grein / Against the grain0
Duimnaelsketse (Johann de Lange)0
The seeing eye, the narrating I: Animals in Eben Venter’s Decima (2023)0
Les traductions des œuvres littéraires de langue française en Afrique du Sud0
Orality in Yorùbá films: A study of selected films of Akínwùmí Iṣọ̀lá0
Surfacing: On Being Black and Feminist in South Africa (Desiree Lewis & Gabeba Baderoon, eds.)0
Tussenganger (Marius Crous)0
Social commentary in the song “Chineke doo” by Sam Ojukwu0
Speculative vertices, Ogun mythopoesis, and (the) fourth/further stage(s)0
Mirage (David Ralph Viviers)0
Stories of Fathers, Stories of the Nation: Fatherhood and Paternal Power in South African Literature (Grant Andrews)0
Dreaming in Colour (Uvile Ximba)0
Gender and power as negotiated in Bukusu circumcision ceremonies0
Gewete, transformasie en herinnering op die Rooiplein0
Hou jou oë oop (Brian Fredericks)0
Autobiographik in Afrika: Literaturgeschichte und Genrevielfalt (Susanne Gehrmann)0
Soe rond ommie bos (Veronique Jephtas)0
Die man wattie kinnes vang (Nathan Trantraal)0
Nomadiese sterre (Joan Hambidge)0
Weerskyn (Alwyn Roux)0
Sur l’afrofuturisme, la crise climatique, la toxicité et la magie dans Nos jours brûlés: Entretien avec Laura Nsafou0
Plunder (Antjie Krog)0
New Afrikaans-language cinemas / Nuwe Afrikaanstalige rolprentrigtings0
In praise of Ịjọ folklore: A Sailor’s Son by Christian Otobotekere0
Ilifa (Athambile Masola)0
Comparative analysis of black queer feminist isiXhosa and English poetry0
Nou in infrarooi (Tom Dreyer)0
Towards reconstructing Africa: Recuperation and responsibility in Ayi Kwei Armah’s The Healers0
Leo.0
Capitalism against the planet: Posthuman ecocriticism in Alistair Mackay’s It Doesn’t Have To Be This Way0
In-between spaces in Klara du Plessis’s Ekke: Identity, language and art0
Desmond T. Cole (1922–2018)0
Radikaal versus beskeie: Die vroegste vrouestemme teen patriargie in die Suid-Afrikaanse literatuursisteem0
Gebeente0
A Hibiscus Coast (Nick Mulgrew)0
The power of exclusion in the works of André Brink and Assia Djebar0
Preliminary notes on topicality and recent pandemic poetry0
Laaste kans (Marita van der Vyver)0
ek en jy bestaan nie (Danie Marais)0
Genres of displacement: Rewriting environmental crisis from the African continent / Genres du déplacement : réécrire la crise environnementale depuis le continent africain0
“We’ve had enough of being trapped in this derelict pondok of history”: An interview with Zoë Wicomb0
Om die “ruimland […] van nuuts af oop [te] bou”: ’n Woordjie oor Hein Willemse0
kosmos en komete (kaalwoorde/Ané Kotzé)0
Die teks as ’n etiese aanspraak0
Doolhof (Rudie van Rensburg)0
Interseksionele feminisme in Afrikaanse poësie: Lynthia Julius se Uit die kroes0
Native Life in the Third Millennium (Masande Ntshanga)0
met die oog op more: ’n versdrama (Antjie Krog)0
War and the subaltern: Voice as power in Buchi Emecheta’s Destination Biafra0
Simoelégri: Stad van onrus (Jaco Fouché)0
Stand-up documentary: An emerging narrative device in Yvonne Orji’s comedy0
erf en elders (Kleinboer)0
Fuelling Bodies: Movement, embodiment, and climate crisis in Wanuri Kahiu’s Pumzi0
The world is a bar: Fiston Mwanza Mujila’s writing beyond ‘Africa’0
Sluitstuk (Johann Rossouw)0
an/other pastoral (Tjawangwa Dema)0
Die laaste kanariegeel notaboek (Anchien Troskie)0
Transnasionale ontlaering / Transnational unlaagering0
Foundational African Writers: Peter Abrahams, Noni Jabavu, Sibusiso Nyembezi & Es’kia Mphahlele (Bhekizizwe Peterson, Khwezi Mkhize & Makhosazana Xaba, reds.)0
Don Jadu (S.E.K. Mqhyai)0
Diana se dag (Helene de Kock)0
Kwaaiwater (Irna van Zyl)0
No Cold Kitchen. A Biography of Nadine Gordimer (Ronald Suresh Roberts)0
Eastern African women writers' 'national epics': A new force in creative fiction?0
Dockside Reading: Hydrocolonialism and the Custom House (Isabel Hofmeyr)0
Narreskip (Johan Myburgh)0
om my kastele in Spanje te sloop (Jaco Barnard-Naudé)0
Sarraounia, love, and the postcolony0
The Black Register (Tendayi Sitholo)0
Relasionele ontologie en posthumanistiese subjektiwiteit in Pieter Odendaal se poësiedebuut0
Die onsigbare (P. J. O. Jonker)0
Un futur qui manque: sur quelques pièces de théâtre togolaises0
Hulle noem haar Carminda0
Die kapokdokter (François Loots)0
Aan ’n beentjie sit en kluif (Marius Crous)0
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