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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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

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
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
Freedom Inc.: Gendered Capitalism in New Indian Literature and Culture: A Response	4
The Cultural Underground of Decolonization	3
Continuous Pasts: A Review	3
Tanya Agathocleous, Disaffected: Emotion, Sedition, and Colonial Law in the Anglosphere. Cornell University Press, 2021, 211 pp.	2
Decolonizing African and African Diasporan Cultural Memory in Djanet Sears and M. NourbeSe Philip’s Works	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
Akshya Saxena, Vernacular English: Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India. Princeton University Press, 2019, 233 pp.	2
Edward Said and Philosophy	1
Fukú Americanus and the Tragic Intertext: Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao	1
The Postcolonial Uncanny in “Toba Tek Singh”	1
Aftermaths Without End	1
The Translational Turn and the Dual Pressures on Chinese Literary Studies	1
African Literatures in the Portuguese Language: Singularities	1
“On Reading Mau Mau”	1
Digital African Literatures and the Coloniality of Data	1
Within Without: Dreaming New Futures of and for Psychoanalysis	1
Colleen Taylor, Irish Materialisms: The Nonhuman and the Making of Colonial Ireland, 1690–1830. Oxford University Press, 2023, 253 pp.	1
Susanna L. Sacks, Networked Poetics: The Digital Turn in Southern African Poetry. University of Massachusetts Press, 2024, 221 & xiv pp.	1
Creolization, Hybridity and Archipelagic Thinking: Interrogating Inscriptions of Postcolonial Agency	1

Jinn and Jins: Sensuous Piety as Queer Ethics	1
Nested Frameworks of Unfreedom in Freedom Inc.	1
Bad Subjects of Good Freedoms	0
In Other Theories: Colonial Reason, Language, And Literature in Ankhi Mukherjee’s Unseen City	0
Creolization as Method	0
Peripheral Convergences	0
PLI volume 10 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	0
Continuous Pasts, Arrested Futures: Memory, Fiction, and the Postcolonial Condition in Africa	0
El Otro Lado: Díaz and Saldívar Navigate Transamericanity	0
The Dream of Psychosocial Thinking	0
Enduring Epidemic: Aesthetic Aftershocks of the 1914 Plague and the Segregation of Dakar	0
Expanding Freedom: A Response	0
PLI volume 10 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	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
Primitivism in the Peripheries: Reflections on Auritro Majumder’s Insurgent Imaginations: World Literature and the Periphery	0
An Ineffable Haunting: Language, Embodiment, and Ghosts in Toni Morrison’s Beloved	0
Encountering Others’ Empathy Toward Oneself in Marlene van Niekerk’sAgaat	0
Edward Said and the Dialectic of the “Imperialized” Intellectual	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
Writing Gone Wao	0
The Eurocentric Constant: An Approach to the Study of Mozambican Literature	0
Forum on Joe Cleary’s Modernism, Empire, and World Literature	0
Fiction Beyond Words: Music in J. M. Coetzee’s Jesus Novels	0
Modes of Cosmopolitanism in Waguih Ghali’s Egypt in Beer in the Snooker Club	0
The Informal Economy in Masande Ntshanga’sThe Reactive	0
An Adolescent’s Explosive Crossing	0
From the Heart of the Country to the European Core: J. M. Coetzee andlos polacos	0
Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Postcolonial Bergson. Fordham University Press, 2019, 144 pp.	0
PLI volume 10 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	0
Queens of the Mother City: A Queer Investigation into the Roots of Cape Town’s Royals	0
Linguistic Hybridization in the Emergence of Creoles	0
PLI volume 10 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	0
The Stakes of Internationalism	0
Literary Studies Beyond “The Colonial Book”: A Response to Isabel Hofmeyr’s Dockside Reading: Hydrocolonialism and the Custom House	0
Cormac McCarthy’s Racial Fictions: Race in Blood Meridian’s Colonial Imagination	0
Mara de Gennaro, Modernism after Postcolonialism: Toward a Nonterritorial Comparative Literature. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020, 229 pp.	0
The Luso-African Literary World: Introduction	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
Reverse Diaspora across the Black Atlantic: The Brazilian Returnees in Francophone African Fiction	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
Postcolonialism without Colonialism: Vestiges of a Method	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
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
Rochona Majumdar, Art Cinema and India’s Forgotten Futures: Film and History in the Postcolony. Columbia University Press, 2021, 320 pp.	0
Review essay on African Ecomedia and Teaching Postcolonial Environmental Literature	0
Ignatius Sancho, Laurence Sterne, and Antislavery Discourse in the Eighteenth-Century Press in Britain and America	0
PLI volume 10 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	0
Response to the Responses to Modernism, Empire, World Literature	0
Haddis Alemayehu’s Vision of the Old World: Literary Realism and the Tragedy of History in the Amharic NovelFikir iske Mekabir	0
Peter J. Kalliney, The Aesthetic Cold War: Decolonization and Global Literature. Princeton University Press, 2022, 336 pp.	0
The Creolizing Turn and Its Archipelagic Directions	0
Christopher E. W. Ouma, Childhood in Contemporary Diasporic African Literature: Memories and Futures Past Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, 202 pp.	0
The Cultural Underground of Decolonization – CORRIGENDUM	0
Stories of the Port: Response to Isabel Hofmeyr, Dockside Reading: Hydrocolonialism and the Custom House	0
Independent Publishing in Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, and Guinea-Bissau	0
(Un)Sympathetic Species: Kin and Kind in Teju Cole’s Open City	0
Caribbean Modernism and Cleary’s Modernism, Empire, and World Literature	0
Brazil—A New Republic of African Letters?	0
Matsotsi: The Migrant Detective and the Postcolonial State	0
PLI volume 9 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	0
“In”: M. NourbeSe Philip and “Center”	0
Latinx Internationalism and the French Atlantic: Sandra María Esteves in Art contre/against apartheid and Miguel Algarín in “Tangiers”	0
More of a Question than a Comment: A Response to Modernism, Empire, World Literature, by Joe Cleary	0
Continuous Pasts: Memory as Historicity	0
Requiem for a Dream	0
José David Saldívar on Junot Díaz, or the Half-Life of the Coloniality of Power in Peripheral-Modern Writing	0
Cold War Decolonization	0