OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Literary Studies 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Gukurahundi in Zimbabwe: An Epistemicide and Genocide	5
The Language of the Gukurahundi Genocide in Zimbabwe: 1980-1987	5
Dystopian Ecologies: Thinking about South African Ecocriticism through a Comparative Reading of Henrietta Rose-Innes’s Green Lion and Alettie van den Heever’s Stof [Dust]	3
Subversive Verses: How Ndebele Musicians Counter-Framed the State Propaganda on The Gukurahundi Genocide	3
The Emotional Well-being of African Wives: Perceiving the Generalised Resistance Resources (GRRs) in Stress Management by Co-wives in Lola Shoneyin’s Novel The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives	2
Being Human in a Time of Catastrophe: African Feminism, Feminist Humaneness, and the Poetry of Joyce Ash	2
Gukurahundi, Media and the “Wounds of History”: Discourses on Mass Graves, Exhumations and Reburials in Post- Independent Zimbabwe	2
Life Writing During a Pandemic: Making Sense of the “New Normal” in Lockdown Extended: Corona Chronicles (2020)	2
Romanticising the “Boer”: Narratives of White Victimhood in South African Popular Culture	2
“Policing Borders”: Extermination and Relocation of Insects in Three South African Texts	1
Made in Cato Manor: Ronnie Govender and the Fight to Preserve a Personal/Public Space	1
Ecocritical Concerns in Select Afrikaans Narrative Works: Critical Perspectives	1
Food, Masculinity and Gender-based Violence in Sally Andrew’s Recipes for Love and Murder (2015)	1
Nostalgic Dystopia: Johannesburg as Landscape afterWhite Writing	1
The Effects of an Unplanned Pregnancy in the Post-Independence Shona Novel: “De-Womanisation” or Women’s Empowerment?	1
A Zulu king in conversation with the world: Translational and transcultural strategies in Chaka (1981) by Thomas Mofolo	1
Media, Minority Discourses and Identity Politics in Post-Genocide Rwanda	1
The Hero’s Journey: The Miltonian Satan of the British Epic in Opposition to the Kingian Roland of the American fictional West	1
Imagined Identity and Human Rights in the Post-pandemic World of Lauren Beukes’s Afterland	1
Editorial Note	1
Doing Literature Now	1
Gender Mainstreaming in Peacebuilding and Localised Human Security in the Context of the Darfur Genocide: An Africentric Rhetorical Analysis	1
History and Literature: Magic Realism and Italian POWs in a South African Novel	1
Mitshimbilo (“Wanderlust Disease”): Africa’s Future in Zakes Mda’s Sculptors of Mapungubwe and Two of Ben Okri’s Novels	1
Pandemic Literatures and Being Human in Times of Mass Infection and Catastrophe: Some African Perspectives	1

Mimetic Presuppositions: On the Epitextual Responses to Two Poems in English by Marlene van Niekerk	1
Unburying Silences: Trauma and Recuperative Narrative in Zoë Wicomb’sPlaying in the Light	1
Introduction: Reading Post-Apartheid Whiteness	1
The Art of Astonishment: Reflections on Gifts and Grace, by Alice Brittan	0
Editorial Note	0
Genocidal Action and Framing in Vera's The Stone Virgins	0
Solipsistic breakthroughs or stymying collectives? Historical duels in August Wilson’s Radio Golf.	0
Manga: A Critical Guide by Shige (CJ) Suzuki and Ronald Stewart	0
Culpability and Nature-Nature Infractions in Select Poems in Tanure Ojaide’s Narrow Escapes: A Poetic Diary of the Coronavirus Pandemic	0
n Voelvlug oor die ontwikkeling en die gebruik van Kaapse Afrikaans (Kaaps) in Afrikaanse dramas	0
Intermedial Reflections on Analogue Photography and Digital Visuality in Moxyland	0
Migration Theatre in South Africa With Reference to Mike van Graan’sWhen Swallows Cry	0
Redaksionele nota	0
LGBTQ+ Literature in the West: From Ancient Times to the Twenty-First Century, by Robert C. Evans	0
Decolonising Adamastor: From The Lusiads to Thirteen Cents	0
Draft-dodgers in 1980s South Africa: Styles of Liminality and Lostness	0
Musical Figuring of Dar es Salaam Urban Marginality in Mbogo’s Swahili Novel Watoto wa Maman’tilie	0
Struggle Handshakes and UDF Rasta Colours: White Imaginings and the Appropriation of the Struggle in South African Post-Apartheid Youth Literature	0
Women Navigating the Climate Catastrophe: Challenging Anthropocentrism in Selected Fiction	0
Introduction	0
From Connemara to Gukurahundi Genocide of the 1980s in Zimbabwe	0
Contributors	0
Apartheid’s Patriarchies in Decline: White Masculinities in Damon Galgut’s The Promise	0
Contributors	0
White Bread and Whitewashing: Whiteness and Food in Marlene van Niekerk’s Triomf	0
A Mesh of Strange Strangers in Juliana Spahr’sWell Then There Now(2011): An Exploration of Timothy Morton’s Ecological Thought	0
The Witness of Poetry: Holocaust Representation in Abraham Sutzkever and David Fram	0
To Judge a Book by its Cover: Religio-Cultural Myth on the Cover of Iranian War Literature	0
An Absent Presence: Intertextual Appropriation in Michael K by Nthikeng Mohlele	0
Editorial Note	0
London and the Spectre of Anarchy: Chesterton’s The Man Who Was Thursday as Urban History	0
Redaksionele nota	0
“A New Race of Immortals”: A Posthumanist Reading of “Poe Posthumous; or, the Light-House”	0
Literêr-teoretiese benaderings tot literatuurstudie in die tagtiger- en negentigerjare	0
Literature and the Battle against Covid-19 in Zimbabwe: A Study of Flight Mlambo’s Digital Verse	0
Editorial Note	0
Intensification of Biopolitical Strategies: Governing Bodies’ Treatment of Apocalyptic Zombification in Max Brook’s World War Z	0
Redaksionele nota	0
Die tempteerbare oog: Opstelle oor die werk van Marlene van Niekerk, deur Marius Crous (redakteur)	0
The Typewriter’s Tale: Re-Exploring the Historical Figure of Henry James through Fiction	0
Blackface on the South African Stage	0
Redaksionele nota	0
Monstrous Bodies as Cultural Text	0
Dystopian Futures: Ugandan Science Fiction and Post-Apocalypse Contagions	0
My Silver Stripes and Other Poems, by Maletšema Ruth Emsley	0
Corruption in Contemporary Nigerian Poetry: A New Historicist Perspective	0
Writing the Elusive Narrative of Soweto-Based Community Theatre, 1984–1994	0
Writing a South African Pandemic Moment: Inequality and Violence in The Lockdown Collection	0
Ahistorical Rhetoric: Oil, Ethnicity and Genocide in South Sudan	0
Post-Apartheid Same-Sex Sexualities: Restless Identities in Literary and Visual Culture, by Andy Carolin	0

Contributors	0
Editorial Note	0
The Rhetoric of Shimon Wincelberg’s Resort ‘76 and the Aesthetics of Atrocity in Drama of the Holocaust	0
Contributors	0
Redaksionele nota	0
A Decolonial Reading of Ronnie Govender’s “Over My Dead Body”	0
A Weberian Reading of Henry James’s The Ambassadors	0
Enjoying the Symptom: David Foster Wallace’s Brief Interviews with Hideous Men	0
The (De)Colonial Praxis: Confronting Present-Day Dilemmas of Transforming Knowledges and Societies in Kopano Matlwa’s Spilt Milk	0
Self-Defence and Battered Woman Syndrome in a Selected isiXhosa Short Story	0
Victims and Survivors: An Exploration of Abuse against Women and Possibilities for Women Empowerment as Portrayed in Selected Zimbabwean Literary Texts	0
Mapping Abjection: Dissecting Racial and Sexual Boundaries in Mark Gevisser’s Lost and Found in Johannesburg	0
Contributors	0
Contemporaneity, Religious Instruction and Music in Dryden’s “A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day” and C.S. Lewis’The Chronicles of Narnia*	0
“Race”, Language and Xenophobia in Joseph Conrad’s “Amy Foster”	0
Agitations for Self-Identification and (Re)presentation in Selected Tshivenda Poetry	0
Contributors	0
The Gender Performances of Margaret Atwood’s Aunt Lydia in "The Testaments"	0
Anxious Competition: Exploring the Poetic Imaginarium of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Malawi	0
The Multispecies City in McCarthy’s Suttree and Duiker’s Thirteen Cents	0
An Anzalduan Reading of Ben Okri’s In Arcadia (2002)	0
Lookin Back: James Ogude in Conversation with Ben Okri: 26 April 2014, University of Pretoria, South Africa	0
Contributors	0
The Construction of Identities	0
Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory: An Overview, by Jeffrey Di Leo	0
Reflections of Tartarin of Tarascon in Araba Sevdası in the Context of Impressionism	0
Eliot and Beckett’s Low Modernism: Humility and Humiliation, by Rick de Villiers	0
Unveiling Neocolonialism in Sino-African Relations	0
Into our Labours: Work and its Representation in World-Literary Perspective, by Neil Lazarus	0
Dream as a Journey of Self-discovery in Ben Okri’s “Dreaming of Byzantium”	0
Rethinking the Concept of Double Consciousness in Du Bois’ The Souls of Black Folks (1903)	0
Reconsidering Literatures: Directions in South African Literary Studies	0
Redaksionele nota	0
Complicity and Responsibility in Contemporary African Writing: The Postcolony Revisited by Minna Johanna Niemi	0
Power and the Prison: A Foucauldian Perspective on Herman Charles Bosman’s Cold Stone Jug and Willemsdorp	0
The Anticipation of #MeToo in J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace	0
Redaksionele nota	0
Terror Terroir: Building Disruptive Possibilities in Ivan Vladislavić’s The Folly	0
Countering Mind-forg’d Manacles in Ben Okri’s The Freedom Artist (2019)	0
Foregrounding Boundaries Between Self and Other in South Africa: A Comparative Analysis of The Lostness of Alice, The Good Doctor and Lost Ground	0
Representing Fat Female Bodies: A Fat Studies Analysis of Selected Literary Texts	0
Editorial Note	0
Negotiations of Anxiety in the Discourses of Melanie Klein and Edgar Allan Poe	0
Wagar and Motley “Archaic” Vestiges: A Postmodernist Reading of Contemporary Somali Fiction	0
Robotic Narrative, Mindreading and Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun	0
Translating Taboo: Blasphemy in an Afrikaans Translation of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales	0
Poetics of the Medial State of Emily Dickinson’s Persona	0
Defying Stereotyping Hutu People in The Rwandan Genocide in The Film, Kinyarwanda (2012)	0
Editorial Note	0
Trauma and the Dialectics of Recuperation in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s By the Sea	0
Twitter Diary and COVID-19 Survival: The Case of @acielumumba	0
Contagion, a Futurist South African Climate Crisis and a Hidden Drug Pandemic in Mohale Mashigo’s Intruders: Short Stories	0
Representations and Rhetoric of Genocide in African Popular Cultures	0
The Role of Prostitutes in the Political Economy of Corruption in Ben Mtobwa’s Pesa Zako Zinanuka and Dares Salaam Usiku	0
Call for Papers	0
“Their Skin Is Black”	0