OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Clcweb-Comparative Literature and Culture 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
The Politics of Social Reproduction. An Introduction	5
Introduction: China Question of Western Theory	5
Social Reproduction in the Making: Recentering the Margins, Expanding the Directions	5
Incipient Fascism: Black Radical Perspectives	3
Social Reproduction Theory and the Form of Labor Power	2
Kazuo Ishiguro and the Service Economy	1
The Question of Nation and Nationalism in Chinese Postcolonialism	1
10 Theses on Feminist Economics (or the antagonism between the strike and finance)	1
Labor Valorization and Social Reproduction: What is Valuable about the Labor Theory of Value?	1
Beyond ‘Rising Tides’ and ‘Lying Flat’: Emergent Cultural Practices Among Youth in Urban China	1
Deconstructing Feminine and Feminist Fantastic through the Study of Living Dolls	1
“Love Thy Social Media!”: Hysteria and the Interpassive Subject	1
Fourier, Marx, and Social Reproduction	1
Introduction: New Perspectives on the Female Fantastic	1
A Geocritical Perspective on the Female Fantastic: Rethinking the Domestic	1
Late Postmodernism	1
Trauma, History, and Terror in the Poetry of Yusef Komunyakaa and Sinan Antoon	1
Female Fantastic in Anthologies: Gendering the Genre and its Discourse	1
Resisting Pacification: Locating Tension in G'Ebinyo Ogbowei's Poetry	1
Defending “Western” Values: Reactionary Neoliberalism in the Americas	1
Natan Zach’s Poetics of Erasure	1
Detroit’s Water Wars: Race, Failing Social Reproduction, and Infrastructure	1
The Chuanyue (Traversing) of Western Cultural Industry Theories in China	1
“<em>There is no pandemic</em>”: On Memes, Algorithms and other Interpassive Forms of Right-wing Disbelief	1
Identity Reconfigurations, Memory and Personal History in Norman Manea and Saul Bellow’s ‘Spoken Book’	1

The Social Sinthome	0
Introduction: A Return to the Bad Old Times	0
Socrates the Degenerate: Irony as Trope of Decadence	0
Poetics of the Crystal-Image: Dreams in <em>Mirror</em> and <em>Ashes of Time Redux</em>	0
Terada Torahiko, a Physicist and a Haikai Poet	0
Poetic Explorations in Bill F. Ndi’s <em>Worth Their Weight in Thorns</em>: (De)Constructing Hegemonic National Integration and Debating Francophonecentric National Governance.	0
Stalking Oneself: The Fantasmatic Intersubjectivity of Google	0
Where Are the Women?: An Ecofeminist Reading of William Golding’s <em>Lord of the Flies</em>	0
Confinement, Care, and Commodification in Mati Diop’s <em>In My Room</em>	0
A Rhetoric and Ethics of Character Narration in Ian McEwan’s <em>Nutshell</em>	0
“It Is Not All That Bad”—Hitler and Identity-building in <em>Er ist wieder da</em> (Look Who’s Back)	0
Print Culture, Digital Culture, Poetics and Hermeneutics: Discussion with J. Hillis Miller	0
Reinventing China: Mao’s Ideas on National Form	0
"A Generation of Wonderful Jews Will Grow from the Land": The Desire for Nativeness in Hebrew Israeli Poetry	0
Political Orientation in Ecocriticism: National Allegory in Vietnamese Ecofiction by Trần Duy Phiên	0
Neo-Authoritarianism without Authority	0
Vulgarity as Springboard for High Art—A Comparative Study of Vladimir Nabokov and Qian Zhongshu’s Notions of Vulgarity	0
Literature and Economy in Portuguese-speaking Southern Africa	0
Reflections on Political Policies and Statements in Arts and Literature in PRC	0
Immanuel Kant’s Manifesto for Dad Rock	0
Speculative Epistemologies of Resistance in <em>Hombres de maíz</em> and <em>Bandarshah</em>	0
Female Bonding and Marginality in Shang Wanyun’s novella “Xialihe” (1978)	0
The Minimal Politics of Autonomy	0
Introduction: Poetry in Israel: Forging Identity	0
On a Small Glossary of Academic Anti-Intellectualism	0
The Extinction Race: Techniques of the Human in Proust, via Houellebecq	0
Nationalist Allegories in the Post-human Era	0
Incendiary Devices: Imagining E-Waste Frontiers and Africa’s Digital Futures	0
Tituba, “Dark Eve” in the Origins of the American Myth: The Subject of History and Writing about Salem	0
Althusser’s Maoism-Machiavellianism and the Maoist “People”/“Masses”as a China Question of Western Theory	0
Genre’s Autonomy, <em>Autonomy</em>’s Genre	0
Language, Science and Literature	0
Community Despite Connection: Resisting the Digital Logics of Optimization and Failure	0
Toward an Ecology of Life-making: The Re-membering of Meridel Le Sueur	0
China Question of US-American Imagism	0
Pallavi Rastogi, Postcolonial Disasters: <em>Narrating Catastrophe in the Twenty-First Century </em>(2020): Review Essay	0
Trans-Atlantic Interrogation: Fabienne Pasquet’s <em>La deuxième mort de Toussaint Louverture</em>	0
Topological Tropology of V.S. Naipaul’s Islamic Travelogues and Daniel Pipes’ Islamic History: Ahistorical Historicism	0
Strange Genre-related Loops in a Novel-Short Story: The Tension between the Genres and their Cultural Context	0
A Trumpian Mechanism	0
“A Sick Eagle” and “I am”: Hymns to Sculpture by Keats and Rilke	0
Beyond Victimhood: Female Agency in Nigerian Civil War Novels	0
Neo-Authoritarianism and the Contestation of White Identification in the US	0
Sounding the State of the World: Interview with Karim Rafi, Summer 2021	0
Translating Literary Ideology from Ancient Chinese into Modern French: François Cheng’s Francophone Poetry in <em>Double chant</em> (2000)	0
Time Decay: Assets, Authoritarianism, and Anxiety about the Future	0
Remembering Complicity and Resistance: A Review of Mihaela Mihai’s <em>Political Memory and the Aesthetics of Care: The Art of Complicity and Resistance</em> (2022)	0
‘Convicted of Patricide?’: Robert Frost’s Nationalism in the Eyes of Contemporary Arab-American Women Writers	0
BreadTube Rising: How Modern Creators Use Cultural Formats to Spread Countercultural Ideology	0
Orature: The Political Interpretation of Performance Framework in <em>Anthills of the Savannah</em> and <em>Half of a Yellow Sun</em>	0

The Turn toward the Nonhuman in Susan Straight’s <em>A Million Nightingales</em>	0
Ecopoetry as Method: Reading Gary Snyder as a Cultural Mediator between China and the World	0
Bergson on Poetics: Philosophy, Literature and Science	0
Translating Diversity from Ralph Ellison to Kenzaburō Ōe	0
Cinematic Representation of Ethnic Minorities in PRC and Postcolonialism	0
Language and Betrayal: Posthuman Ethics in Kazuo Ishiguro’s <em>Never Let Me Go</em>	0
Strategies of (In)Visibility and Resilience: Women Writers in a Digital Era	0
Why I Write in Yiddish	0
Authoritarianism and Ideology	0
Coming of Age and Exile in <em>No pasó nada</em>	0
Review of <em>The Journey to the West</em>, Vol. 1, Translated and edited by Anthony C. Yu	0
A Semiotic Paradox: Scientific Language in the Narrative of TV Advertisement-	0
Purloined Significance: How Recidivism Algorithms Capture, Transform, and Automate our Intersubjective Unconscious as Data	0
State, Transnational Citizenship and the Transformative Power of Art: The NSK State in Time	0
Sedimented Forms: Coming Back to Autonomy	0
Problems with Perceptual and Cognitive Idiosyncrasies in Li Wenjun’s Translation of the Benjy Section of Faulkner's <em>The Sound and the Fury</em>	0
Storytelling as a Way of Translation: The Rendition of Taoism in Ursula K. Le Guin's <em>The Lathe of Heaven</em>	0
Transgression, Essentialism and Literary System: An Approach to the Viability of the Female Fantastic	0
From Franz Kafka to Franz Kafka Award Winner, Yan Lianke: Biopolitics and the Human Dilemma of Shenshizhuyi in <em>Liven</em> and <em>Dream of Ding Village</em>	0
Necropolitics and Visuality: Remembering ‘Speculative Fictions’ in Hong Kong after Rancière and Mbembe	0
Looking Back, or Re-visioning: Contemporary American Jewish Poets on “Lot’s Wife”	0
Aesthetics Today	0
The Symbolism of Clothing: The Naked Truth About Jacques Lacan	0
Reading the Global City: Crisis, Cognitive Mapping and the “Urban Sensorium” in Tom McCarthy’s <em>Satin Island</em> and Ben Lerner’s <em>10:04</em>	0
No estamos todas, faltan las presas! Contemporary Feminist Practices Building Paths toward Prison Abolition	0
Hanay Geiogamah’s Body Indian and Foghorn as “Plays with a Purpose”	0
Amazon Web Services, the Lacanian Unconscious, and Digital Life	0
The Animal in the Wild in <em>Hwang Sun-mi’s The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly</em>	0
The Inappropriate/D Fantastic: A Proposal Beyond Feminism	0
Readymade or Made [to be] Ready, Replicant or Surplus: Social Reproduction and the Biopolitics of Abstraction Prefigured in Contemporary Art	0
#Emotional: Exploitation & Burnout in Creator Culture	0
“Western Marxism” in Mao’s China	0
Cooling Down Transmedia Storytelling	0
Platform Psychoanalysis: What Does the Algorithm Want?	0
Western Theory and Historical Studies of Chinese Literary Criticism	0
Exploring the Margins of Kotha Culture : Reconstructing a Courtesan’s life in Neelum Saran Gour’s <em>Requiem in Raga Janki</em>	0
Fredric Jameson and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s <em>Periodizing</em> the Black Internal Colony	0
Returning to the Past to Rethink Socio-Political Antagonisms: Mapping Today’s Situation in Regards to Popular Insurrections	0
Periodizing the Residuality of a Composite Protest Art Form: The Case of Telangana <em>Dhoom Dham</em>	0
Everybody Wants to be a Fascist Online: Psychoanalysis and the Digital Architecture of Fascism	0
A Case of Pandemic Narrative and the End of Post-Cold War	0
Graphic Nonsense and Historical Trauma in Fred Chao’s <em>Johnny Hiro</em>	0
Westernization or Localization? The (Mis)reading of “the Tragic” in Modern Chinese Literary Discourse	0
Lacan and the Algorithm	0
<em>The Silmarillion</em> by J.R.R. Tolkien and <em>Shahnameh</em> by Firdausi: A Sadraic Interpretation of Free Will and Determinism	0
Children’s Gothic in the Chinese Context: The Untranslatability and Cross-Cultural Readability of a Literary Genre	0
The Brazilian System of Television, or How to Get a President	0
China Question of Western Postcolonial Translation Theory	0
Politics of Evasion and Tales of Abjection: Postmodern Demythologization in Angela Carter and Ghazaleh Alizadeh	0
Confucianism and Folklore in Vietnamese Fantasy Short Stories: <em> The Case of Ghost Stories </em>	0
“No Roses, White nor Red, Glow Here”: The Motif of the Garden in Two Proserpine Poems by A. Swinburne and D. Greenwell	0
“The Poem Is What Lies Between A Between”: Mahmoud Darwish and the Prosody of Displacement	0
A Hebrew Poet Writes in English about the Holocaust	0
Conjunctures, Commodities, and Social State Marxism	0
Introduction: New Faces of Authoritarianism	0
Poetry in Response to the “Disengagement Plan”: Identity, Poetics and Politics	0
Biopolitics in the Twenty-first Century: India and the Pandemic	0
The Hope of Salman Masalha: Re-Territorializing Hebrew	0
Queering Identity Politics in Shimon Adaf’s <em>Aviva-No</em>	0
Playing with Time: Writing History in Neo-Zionist Hebrew Literature	0
The Logic of "Social Enterprise": The Big Issue Organization and New Labour Policy at the Millennial Juncture	0
The Female Fantastic vs. The Feminist Fantastic: Gender and the Transgression of the Real	0
On Gary Snyder’s Tradaptation of <em>Cold Mountain Poems</em> and its Spiritual Salvation and Literary Enlightenment in Postwar America	0
Periodizing the Present: The 2020s, the <em>Longue Durée</em>, & Contemporary Culture	0
When ‘Interplay is the Content of the Work’—A Response to Nicholas Brown’s <em>Autonomy</em>	0
Arab Music and Mizraḥi Poetry	0
Ethical-Reparative Reconfigurations of the Literary Today	0
“Passive Revolutions” after the Crisis of Globalization: Gramsci and the Current Culture of Populism	0
The Moscow-Yan’an-Beijing Mode of Chinese Literary Theory	0
Life is a Story: Narrative and Identity in the War Poetry of Dan Pagis and Charles Simic	0
Extending the Frontiers of the Detective Novel in Adaora Ulasi’s <em>The Man from Sagamu</em>	0
Admiring <em>Autonomy</em>	0
Israeli Documentary Poetry about Coming of Age in the Early Statehood Period	0
Signs of the Inhuman: Hauntings and Lost Futures in Verónica Gerber Bicecci’s <em>La Compañía</em>	0
Representation of Terror and Terrorism in Two Arab Films: <em>Paradise Now</em> (2005) by Hany Abu-Assad and <em>Horses of God</em> (2012) by Nabil Ayouch	0
Returning to East Africa via India: On M. G. Vassanji’s <em>And Home Was Kariakoo</em>	0
Precarity in the Times of Partition: Personal vs Communal Love in Khushwant Singh’s <em>Train to Pakistan</em> and Saadat Hasan Manto’s “Gurmukh Singh ki Wasiyat”	0
“For the moment, I am not F*cking,” I am Tweeting: Platforms of / as Sexuality	0