OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Comparative Critical 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Incoming tide by Astrid Dehe and Achim Engstler, translated by Rachel Farmer	13
Notes on Contributors	4
Poetry, Parody and the Construction of Contrarian Discourse in Franco’s Spain	3
Squaring the Circle: The Geometry of Lars Norén and Samuel Beckett’s Plays	2
Back matter	2
Wolves Like to Wander Around: Nomadic, Distal, and Unfurling Forces in Maclear and Arsenault's Virginia Wolf	2
Folk Medicine	1
The Dark Forest: The Economized Hunting Ground for Human Capital in Liu Cixin’s Three-Body Trilogy	1
Translating Jack Halberstam's Gaga Feminism and The Queer Art of Failure into Italian: A Conversation	1
Back matter	1
President’s Letter	1
Back matter	1
How to Become a Comparatist	0
The Ascension of the Astro-Goth – Yugen Blakrok’s Otherworldly Hip-Hop Poetics	0
How We Compare: Introduction	0
Against the White Racial Imaginary: Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric	0
Daniel Just, Transformative Fictions: World Literature and Personal Change	0
Editors' Introduction	0
‘Languages are so like their boots’: Linguistic Incompossibility in Flush	0
Back matter	0
Katja Haustein, Alone with Others: An Essay on Tact in Five Modernist Encounters	0
‘Our Creole Painter’: Derek Walcott's Early Intermediality	0
Front matter	0
Suppressed Voices: Parallel Censorship of James Joyce and Sadegh Hedayat	0
Guest Editors’ Introduction	0

‘Uncertain Voyages of Signification’: Salvage Poetics of the Caribatopia	0
A Knot Fit to Be Untied: A Collective Contrarian ‘We’ in Today’s Mediterranean	0
Introduction: Spectres, Spectrums and Spectrality: New Directions in Comparative Literature	0
Louise Nilsson, David Damrosch, and Theo D’haen, eds, Crime Fiction as World Literature	0
‘Quixoptimism’ Translated by Jim Hicks	0
Comparability and Translatability in the Making of Historical Narratives: Alba de Céspedes’ Comparative Method	0
Rafael Acevedo’s Cynical Voice in Literature: Finding Words Beyond Neoliberal Numbing	0
‘The Instigation I Aspire To’: Erri De Luca and Contrarian Education	0
Front matter	0
Front matter	0
President's Letter	0
Back matter	0
From Contrarian to Propositional Speech: The Neue Rechte and Völkische Siedler in Germany	0
Guest Editors' Introduction: The Politics of Translation: Transnational Feminist Perspectives	0
Bilingualism in Scottish Poetry	0
Brian Holton, Aa Cled wi Clouds she Cam: 60 lyrics frae the Chinese: Translations in Scots and English	0
The Interpreter’s Identity as a Site of Contestation in Brežná’s The Thankless Foreigner and Lakhous’s Clash of Civilizations	0
Binational Theatre in the Postcolonial Contact Zone: Kateb Yacine, Al Assifa and the Politics of Multilingualism in Algeria and France	0
Oppositional Defiant Disorder or Contrarian Speech? The Terrific Murder of (S)Jack the Elephant	0
Mark Sandy, Transatlantic Transformations of Romanticism: Aesthetics, Subjectivity and the Environment	0
Reading Together the Aesthetics and Politics of Decolonization: A View from Morocco	0
Postcolonial Writers and Multiple Audiences: Hybridization, Linguistic Bivalency and (Resistant) Translations in Patrick Chamoiseau's Solibo Magnifique	0
President’s Letter	0
Notes on Contributors	0
Ambivalent Anti-Modernity: Fashwave and Far Right Temporality in the Internet Age	0
Notes on Contributors	0
‘Reading Together’ for the Nuance: Transgender Themes and Politics in Two Tunisian Novels from the 1990s	0
Forkit Tongue	0
Fad Dà Chrann	0
Mara de Gennaro, Modernism after Postcolonialism: Towards a Nonterritorial Comparative Literature	0
Growing Together: Yang Shuangzi's Queer Adaptation of Taiwan's Colonial Fiction	0
Autosociobiography: A Travelling Form	0
Riccardo Moratto, Kanglong Liu, and Di-kai Chao, eds, Dream of the Red Chamber: Literary and Translation Perspectives	0
‘The Sole True Power’: A Few Questions for Erri De Luca	0
Comparing Translations of Dante’s Commedia	0
The Case for Maghrebography: Accounting for Linguistic Indigeneity in a Multilingual Literary Testimony	0
Two poems by Christophe Tarkos, translated by David McCallam	0
Past Selves, Future Worlds: Folklore and Futurisms in Science Fiction: Filipino Fiction for Young Adults	0
Notes on Contributors	0
Front matter	0
Guest Editors' Introduction: ‘Reading Together’ Postcolonial Multilingual Literature in the Maghreb	0
The Victims of Defeat by Louise Michel and Marguerite Tinayre	0
Predator Comparison	0
‘I am an old Buddhist soul’: An Interview with Gagan Gill	0
The Climate of Orlando: Woolf, Braidotti and the Anthropocene	0
Mitrofanushka Durasov by Sofia Sinitskaia, translated by Naomi Mottram	0
Notes on Contributors	0
‘Una mezcla de todas las lenguas’: Mediterranean Lingua Franca in Spanish Literature	0
Ethics of ‘Translational’ Acts in Islamic Feminist Writings: An Analysis of Selected Academic Contributions	0
‘A becoming of winged creatures’: Unruly Bodies and Hidden Transcripts in Zeyn Joukhadar’s The Thirty Names of Night	0

Sister Outsiders of the Lesbian Bar: Spatial Hauntings in Audre Lorde's Zami: A New Spelling of My Name	0
Notes on Contributors	0
Pasolini and Minor Comparativism: Transnationalizing Dialect Poetry	0
Writing and Reading Together from Colonial Legacy to World-making: The Case of Algerian Bilingual Authors	0
Decolonizing from Within: Hybridization in Varvara Nedeoglo's Translingual Poetry	0
Linguistic Hybridization in Tricia Nwaubani's I Do Not Come to You By Chance	0
The Deeper Beats of the Heart: Poetry, Platforms and the Collapse of the Public Sphere	0
Front matter	0
Editors’ Introduction	0
What was (and is) the Point of Macaronics? Historical and Typological Considerations	0
Eli Jelly-Schapiro, Moments of Capital: World Theory, World Literature	0
Front matter	0
A Voyage round My Room by Xavier de Maistre, translated by Iain Macleod Higgins	0
‘Stop talking like an old lady’, Or The Spectral Ecologies of Ageing and Illness in Un beau matin (2022)	0
Back matter	0
The Mirrored Monster and Becoming-Wolf: Reflections on Desire in Woolf and Braidotti	0
Notes on Contributors	0
Editors’ Introduction	0
Guest Editors’ Introduction: Speculative Fiction Beyond the West	0
Peter Zusi, The Integrity of the Avant-Garde: Karel Teige and the Biography of an Ambition	0
The Cry of the Heart: Russian and Ottoman Literary Enlightenments	0
Notes on Contributors	0
The Transnational Dissemination and Reception of Portuguese Poetry: Espanca, Andresen and Amaral	0
Guest Editors' Introduction: Reading Braidotti / Reading Woolf	0
Front matter	0
The Decolonial Poetics of Jaime Luis Huenún	0
Back matter	0
Comparative Media Literacies	0
Ouatann and Cocotte: Arabic in French and French in Arabic in Two Tunisian Women’s Novels	0
The War of the Murazzi by Enrico Remmert, translated by Antonella Lettieri	0
From One Woman to Another: Transforming Gender through Wilderness in Female Travel Narratives	0
Structural Comparison, Transfers and Unequal Power Relations: Field Theory as a Conceptual and Methodological Tool	0
President’s Letter	0
Plantae Sapiens	0
Exploring Code-Mixing and Hybridity in Literary Texts	0
Grand couronne	0
Small Lights: On Poems, Coming-to-consciousness and Conscience	0
Back matter	0
Notes on Contributors	0
Drainage 1963 (excerpt) by Hans Herbjørnsrud, translated by Lucy Moffatt	0
The Revolting Maid by Gennaro Antonio Federico, translated by George Robarts	0
Translating across Lines of Identity and Domination: The Case of M. NourbeSe Philip's Zong!	0
‘Poison Rainbows’: The Speculative Jurisdiction of Okorafor's Lagoon	0
Back matter	0
Virginia Woolf, Immanence and Ontological Pacifism	0
‘From Now On’: Concientización, Evidentiary Poems and Readerly Encounters in the Work of Carolyn Forché	0
Laura Kirkley, Mary Wollstonecraft: Cosmopolitan	0
Caitríona Ní Dhúill, Metabiography: Reflecting on Biography	0
The First Chinese Rendition of the Prose Adaptation of Hamlet: Evidencing Change in Early Twentieth-Century China	0
Comparison and Gender Injustice in Worlds of Pandemics	0
Ovidi Carbonell i Cortés and Esther Monzó-Nebot, eds, Translating Asymmetry – Rewriting Power	0
Ruins of the Future: On the Possibility of Life in the Aṭlāl	0
Notes on Contributors	0
Forms and Functions of Linguistic Hybridity in Italo-Brazilian Literature: Nanetto Pipetta, Stória de Nino Fradello de Nanetto Pipetta and	0
Front matter	0
Notes on Contributors	0
Dialogue and Existence in Jorge Luis Borges’s ‘The Secret Miracle’: A Buberian Reading	0
Comparative Literature and the Genocide in Palestine	0
Katharina Herold and Frank Krause, eds, Smell and Social Life: Aspects of English, French and German Literature (1880–1939)	0
The Inhuman Death of Rachel Vinrace	0
Christopher Laing Hill, Figures of the World: The Naturalist Novel and Transnational Form	0
Tunisian Literature and the Language Question: The Long View of a Recurring Debate	0
Decolonizing Comparative Literature	0
Woolfian Love in Aggregate: Posthuman – Queer – Feminist	0
Notes on Contributors	0
Contrary Virtuosos? Paradoxes of a Liminal Figure	0
The Beatrice Monologues by Stefano Benni, translated by Ailsa Wood Azzaro	0
Patricia García, The Urban Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century European Literature: City Fissures	0
Front matter	0
Front matter	0
Editors’ Introduction	0
Editors’ Introduction	0
Dominique Jullien, Borges, Buddhism and World Literature: A Morphology of Renunciation Tales	0
The Occasions: Seventeen Poems by Eugenio Montale, translated by Clive Watkins	0
Comp Lit’s Other Half: In Defense of Literature, with Lao She	0
Back matter	0
Borders, Boundaries and Barricades: Speculative Delhis	0
The Indigenous Chinese Poetry of Jidi Majia and its Portuguese Translation: From hxohxo to berimbau	0
Ian Almond, World Literature Decentered: Beyond the ‘West’ through Turkey, Mexico and Bengal	0
Translation as Metonymy: Bijan Elahi’s Persian Variation on Cyrano de Bergerac	0