OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Gray-Blue Law and Literature	14
Graham Pechey, In a Province: Studies in the Writing of South Africa. Liverpool University Press, 2022, 256 pp.	11
PLI volume 10 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	5
Freedom Inc.: Gendered Capitalism in New Indian Literature and Culture: A Response	5
Bola Dauda and Toyin Falola, Wole Soyinka: Literature, Activism, and African Transformation. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021, 312 pp.	5
PLI volume 9 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	5
The Cultural Underground of Decolonization	3
Tanya Agathocleous, Disaffected: Emotion, Sedition, and Colonial Law in the Anglosphere. Cornell University Press, 2021, 211 pp.	3
Continuous Pasts: A Review	3
Decolonizing African and African Diasporan Cultural Memory in Djanet Sears and M. NourbeSe Philip’s Works	2
Digital African Literatures and the Coloniality of Data	2
Akshya Saxena, Vernacular English: Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India. Princeton University Press, 2019, 233 pp.	2
Françoise Lionnet, ed., Selected Poetry and Prose of Évariste Parny, trans. Peter Low and Blake Smith. The Modern Language Association of America, 2018, 336 pp.	2
Continuous Pasts: Memory, History, Literature	2
Jinn and Jins: Sensuous Piety as Queer Ethics	2
Nested Frameworks of Unfreedom in Freedom Inc.	1
Creolization, Hybridity and Archipelagic Thinking: Interrogating Inscriptions of Postcolonial Agency	1
Fukú Americanus and the Tragic Intertext: Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao	1
Edward Said and Philosophy	1
Aftermaths Without End	1
The Postcolonial Uncanny in “Toba Tek Singh”	1
Colleen Taylor, Irish Materialisms: The Nonhuman and the Making of Colonial Ireland, 1690–1830. Oxford University Press, 2023, 253 pp.	1
African Literatures in the Portuguese Language: Singularities	1
Within Without: Dreaming New Futures of and for Psychoanalysis	1
The Translational Turn and the Dual Pressures on Chinese Literary Studies	1

Susanna L. Sacks, Networked Poetics: The Digital Turn in Southern African Poetry. University of Massachusetts Press, 2024, 221 & xiv pp.	1
“On Reading Mau Mau”	1
“In”: M. NourbeSe Philip and “Center”	0
Postcolonialism without Colonialism: Vestiges of a Method	0
More of a Question than a Comment: A Response to Modernism, Empire, World Literature, by Joe Cleary	0
Brazil—A New Republic of African Letters?	0
Requiem for a Dream	0
Cold War Decolonization	0
Reverse Diaspora across the Black Atlantic: The Brazilian Returnees in Francophone African Fiction	0
Review essay on African Ecomedia and Teaching Postcolonial Environmental Literature	0
Bad Subjects of Good Freedoms	0
Ignatius Sancho, Laurence Sterne, and Antislavery Discourse in the Eighteenth-Century Press in Britain and America	0
Response to the Responses to Modernism, Empire, World Literature	0
Creolization as Method	0
PLI volume 10 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	0
The Creolizing Turn and Its Archipelagic Directions	0
Continuous Pasts, Arrested Futures: Memory, Fiction, and the Postcolonial Condition in Africa	0
The Dream of Psychosocial Thinking	0
Stories of the Port: Response to Isabel Hofmeyr, Dockside Reading: Hydrocolonialism and the Custom House	0
Enduring Epidemic: Aesthetic Aftershocks of the 1914 Plague and the Segregation of Dakar	0
Literary Studies Beyond “The Colonial Book”: A Response to Isabel Hofmeyr’s Dockside Reading: Hydrocolonialism and the Custom House	0
Caribbean Modernism and Cleary’s Modernism, Empire, and World Literature	0
Minding the Metropolis: Precarity, Urbanity, and Mental Conditions: A Response to Ankhi Mukherjee’s Unseen City: The Psychic Lives of the Urban Poor	0
The Luso-African Literary World: Introduction	0
Encountering Others’ Empathy Toward Oneself in Marlene van Niekerk’sAgaat	0
The Irreparable Library	0
J. Daniel Elam, World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth: Anticolonial Aesthetics, Postcolonial Politics. Fordham University Press, 2021, xiv + 192 pp.	0
Places of Body: On Authors, Lives, and Agency	0
Refugees, Extinction, and the Regulation of Death in Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men	0
“A Refugee from Belief”: Agha Shahid Ali’s Poetics of Rupture	0
“Language and the Periphery” Response to Book Forum on Insurgent Imaginations: World Literature and the Periphery	0
Senegalese New(s) Media: Transpositions and Transformations of the Fait Divers in Aminata Maïga Ka	0
José David Saldívar on Junot Díaz, or the Half-Life of the Coloniality of Power in Peripheral-Modern Writing	0
Forum on Joe Cleary’s Modernism, Empire, and World Literature	0
The Eurocentric Constant: An Approach to the Study of Mozambican Literature	0
Peripheral Convergences	0
Fiction Beyond Words: Music in J. M. Coetzee’s Jesus Novels	0
The Informal Economy in Masande Ntshanga’sThe Reactive	0
El Otro Lado: Díaz and Saldívar Navigate Transamericanity	0
An Adolescent’s Explosive Crossing	0
Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Postcolonial Bergson. Fordham University Press, 2019, 144 pp.	0
Expanding Freedom: A Response	0
PLI volume 10 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	0
Linguistic Hybridization in the Emergence of Creoles	0
Primitivism in the Peripheries: Reflections on Auritro Majumder’s Insurgent Imaginations: World Literature and the Periphery	0
PLI volume 10 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	0
Independent Publishing in Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, and Guinea-Bissau	0
Edward Said and the Dialectic of the “Imperialized” Intellectual	0
Cormac McCarthy’s Racial Fictions: Race in Blood Meridian’s Colonial Imagination	0
Christopher E. W. Ouma, Childhood in Contemporary Diasporic African Literature: Memories and Futures Past Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, 202 pp.	0

Review: Everything Is Sampled - Akin Adeṣọkan, Everything Is Sampled: Digital and Print Mediations in African Arts and Letters. Indiana University Press, 2023, 371 pp.	0
Speculative Histories and the More-Than-Human: Weirding Colonialism and Climate Change in Contemporary Australian Fiction	0
Academia, Activism, and Popular Consciousness: A Response to Freedom Inc.	0
Latinx Internationalism and the French Atlantic: Sandra María Esteves in Art contre/against apartheid and Miguel Algarín in “Tangiers”	0
A Transnational Canon of African Literatures in Portuguese?: Mia Couto, José Eduardo Agualusa and the Circulation of Lusophone African Literature	0
Places of Mind: A Response	0
The Politics of Breastfeeding in Northeast Indian Literature	0
Reader Response to Dockside Reading	0
James Yékú, Cultural Netizenship: Social Media, Popular Culture, and Performance in Nigeria. Indiana University Press, 2022, 292 pp.	0
Modes of Cosmopolitanism in Waguih Ghali’s Egypt in Beer in the Snooker Club	0
Lindsey B. Green-Simms, Queer African Cinemas. Duke University Press, 2022, 250 pp.	0
Sakiru Adebayo’s Continuous Pasts and the Challenge of Postcolonizing Memory Studies: Three Musings	0
From the Heart of the Country to the European Core: J. M. Coetzee andlos polacos	0
Rochona Majumdar, Art Cinema and India’s Forgotten Futures: Film and History in the Postcolony. Columbia University Press, 2021, 320 pp.	0
In Other Theories: Colonial Reason, Language, And Literature in Ankhi Mukherjee’s Unseen City	0
Queens of the Mother City: A Queer Investigation into the Roots of Cape Town’s Royals	0
PLI volume 10 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	0
Haddis Alemayehu’s Vision of the Old World: Literary Realism and the Tragedy of History in the Amharic NovelFikir iske Mekabir	0
The Stakes of Internationalism	0
Peter J. Kalliney, The Aesthetic Cold War: Decolonization and Global Literature. Princeton University Press, 2022, 336 pp.	0
PLI volume 10 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	0
Mara de Gennaro, Modernism after Postcolonialism: Toward a Nonterritorial Comparative Literature. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020, 229 pp.	0
The Cultural Underground of Decolonization – CORRIGENDUM	0
An Ineffable Haunting: Language, Embodiment, and Ghosts in Toni Morrison’s Beloved	0
Writing Gone Wao	0
(Un)Sympathetic Species: Kin and Kind in Teju Cole’s Open City	0
Continuous Pasts: Memory as Historicity	0
Matsotsi: The Migrant Detective and the Postcolonial State	0
PLI volume 9 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	0