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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
“To Bewitch an Audience”	3
Female Sexualities under a Patriarchal Microscope: An Interrogation of Buchi Emecheta’s Double Yoke	2
Situated Readings	1
Surveilling the Black Womb	1
“Welcome to Our Heaven”	1
The Power of a Brand: Paramount, Heartland Narrowcasting, and Taylor Sheridan’s Yellowstone	1
The Bloomsbury Handbook to Sylvia Plath, edited by Anita Helle, Amanda Golden, and Maeve O’Brien	1
Unmasking Coloniality	1
Ambiguous Women	1
Intermedialising Modernities	1
Veelkantige perspektief op die werk van ’n formidabele digter	1
Dystopian Futures and Posthuman Realities	1
The Typewriter’s Tale: Re-Exploring the Historical Figure of Henry James through Fiction	1
On the Way to Language: Reading Celan Philologically	1
Reading the “Present Time” as Queer Feminist Refuge in Lien Botha’s Eco-Apocalypse	1
In the Interstices of Oppression	1
Motherhood and Memory in Najwa Bin Shatwan’s The Slave Yards	1
The Art of Astonishment: Reflections on Gifts and Grace, by Alice Brittan	1
Dining with the Duttons	1
Literary Gerontology Comes of Age: A Poetic Language of Ageing (2023), edited by Olga V. Lehmann and Oddgeir Synnes	0
Breaking the Seal	0
Unveiling Jane Eyre: Space Escape and the Construction of Subjectivity through a Foucauldian Lens	0
Problems in Philosophy of Literature	0
“Lyric is my medium, not chronicle”	0
Tropes Have Fangs: Elsa Dutton, 1883, “Going Native”, Adaptive Whiteness and Trope Resilience	0

The Poetics of Toxic Love	0
A Long Walk to Purgatory:	0
Post-Apartheid Haptic	0
Poetics of the Medial State of Emily Dickinson’s Persona	0
Maishe Maponya’s Letta	0
Post-Apartheid IsiXhosa Written Poetry’s Commentary on the Neoliberal Policies of the Democratic South Africa	0
Sartre, Satire and Transcultural Affinity in Nthikeng Mohlele’s Revolutionaries’ House	0
Threading Intsomi Elements in Kgafela oa Magogodi’s Chilahaebolae	0
The Dialectics of Self and Space in Zackie Achmat’s “My Childhood as an Adult Molester:	0
Blackface on the South African Stage	0
Displacement in When Rain Clouds Gather	0
The Biopolitics of Disability	0
LGBTQ+ Literature in the West: From Ancient Times to the Twenty-First Century, by Robert C. Evans	0
Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory: An Overview, by Jeffrey Di Leo	0
Banville’s Anti-Ageing Narrative in The Sea and Ancient Light	0
The (De)Colonial Praxis: Confronting Present-Day Dilemmas of Transforming Knowledges and Societies in Kopano Matlwa’s Spilt Milk	0
The Gender Performances of Margaret Atwood’s Aunt Lydia in "The Testaments"	0
“There Is No Heaven to Go to, Because We’re in It Already. We’re in Hell, Too. They Coexist”	0
Patriarchy and Intersecting Black Womanhood in Postcolonial Zimbabwe	0
Arts-Based Assessment for English Literary Studies	0
Solipsistic breakthroughs or stymying collectives? Historical duels in August Wilson’s Radio Golf.	0
From Interpretative Disjunction to Dialectical Conception	0
“[O]m die wit staar aan myself te verduidelik”:	0
Mapping Abjection: Dissecting Racial and Sexual Boundaries in Mark Gevisser’s Lost and Found in Johannesburg	0
Writing the Elusive Narrative of Soweto-Based Community Theatre, 1984–1994	0
Robotic Narrative, Mindreading and Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun	0
Power and the Prison: A Foucauldian Perspective on Herman Charles Bosman’s Cold Stone Jug and Willemsdorp	0
The Text and Context of Post-Apartheid Afrikaans Theatre	0
Intermedial Reflections on Analogue Photography and Digital Visuality in Moxyland	0
Enjoying the Symptom: David Foster Wallace’s Brief Interviews with Hideous Men	0
The Marriage Debate, Mona Caird and Her Feminist Radicalism	0
The Multispecies City in McCarthy’s Suttree and Duiker’s Thirteen Cents	0
“A New Race of Immortals”: A Posthumanist Reading of “Poe Posthumous; or, the Light-House”	0
“Shakespeare nev’r said so!”	0
The Politics of Race in Bosman’s and Vladislavić’s Johannesburg	0
Into our Labours: Work and its Representation in World-Literary Perspective, by Neil Lazarus	0
The Kafkaesque Wall	0
Transnational Traumatic Memory and African American Community-Building in Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing	0
Refiguring in Black, by Tendayi Sithole	0
Reimagining Progress of Prehistoric Humans	0
Manga: A Critical Guide by Shige (CJ) Suzuki and Ronald Stewart	0
Negotiations of Anxiety in the Discourses of Melanie Klein and Edgar Allan Poe	0
Post-Apartheid Same-Sex Sexualities: Restless Identities in Literary and Visual Culture, by Andy Carolin	0
“A Talent for Wonder”	0
Culpability and Nature-Nature Infractions in Select Poems in Tanure Ojaide’s Narrow Escapes: A Poetic Diary of the Coronavirus Pandemic	0
My Silver Stripes and Other Poems, by Maletšema Ruth Emsley	0
Wilma Stockenström: Met my wysvingertop.’n Huldiging, deur Ronel Foster (redakteur)	0
Apartheid’s Patriarchies in Decline: White Masculinities in Damon Galgut’s The Promise	0
Antjie Krog n Ondersoekte lewe	0
Trauma and the Dialectics of Recuperation in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s By the Sea	0

Stiltes en stemme. ’n Huldiging van Karel Schoeman, deur Willie Burger (redakteur)	0
Desire at the End of the White Line: Notes on the Decolonisation of White Afrikaner Femininity, by Azille Coetzee	0
Reflections of Tartarin of Tarascon in Araba Sevdası in the Context of Impressionism	0
Impure Subjects within Power Structures	0
Norman Ajari Book Review	0
Monstrous Bodies as Cultural Text	0
Unveiling Gender Dynamics	0
The Prevalence of Corruption in Society as Depicted in Selected Xitsonga Poems	0
The Construction of Identities	0
Overlooked and Better for It	0
Unravelling Masculinity: Affect, Vulnerability and Melancholy in Nthikeng Mohlele’s Rusty Bell (2014)	0
Self-Defence and Battered Woman Syndrome in a Selected isiXhosa Short Story	0
Colonial Conflict and Cultural Symbolism in Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s The River Between	0
Evolution of Memory Writing in Samuel Beckett’s Stage Plays	0
Doris Lessing’s Boundary Crossings	0
“I Felt Misunderstood by the World”: The Interplay of Fame, Adversity, and Identity in Bonnie (Mbuli) Henna’s Autobiography Eyebags & Dimples	0
Die tempteerbare oog: Opstelle oor die werk van Marlene van Niekerk, deur Marius Crous (redakteur)	0
Unveiling Neocolonialism in Sino-African Relations	0
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Maternal Ambivalence in Avni Doshi’s Burnt Sugar	0
Fertile Ground	0
Re-reading Matsemela Manaka’s eGoli, Domba, and Goree	0
Wagar and Motley “Archaic” Vestiges: A Postmodernist Reading of Contemporary Somali Fiction	0
“Their Skin Is Black”	0
The Modes of Power and Being in Bessie Head’s A Question of Power	0
Global Stage for IsiXhosa Poetry	0