OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
“Undoing the Laws of the Universe”: Reading Jeanne-Marie Jackson’s The African Novel of Ideas after #FeesMustFall	8
Gray-Blue Law and Literature	4
Bola Dauda and Toyin Falola, Wole Soyinka: Literature, Activism, and African Transformation. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021, 312 pp.	3
Graham Pechey, In a Province: Studies in the Writing of South Africa. Liverpool University Press, 2022, 256 pp.	3
Freedom Inc.: Gendered Capitalism in New Indian Literature and Culture: A Response	2
PLI volume 10 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	2
Reading Postcolonial Animals with the Animist Code: A Critique of “New” Materialist Animal Studies	2
PLI volume 9 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	2
PLI volume 9 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	2
The Cultural Underground of Decolonization	2
Before Race, and After Race: A Response to the Forum on The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages	2
Resistance Movements:The Tempest,Resurgence, and Indigenous Performance on Turtle Island	2
Tanya Agathocleous, Disaffected: Emotion, Sedition, and Colonial Law in the Anglosphere. Cornell University Press, 2021, 211 pp.	1
Digital African Literatures and the Coloniality of Data	1
Jinn and Jins: Sensuous Piety as Queer Ethics	1
Within Without: Dreaming New Futures of and for Psychoanalysis	1
Race in the Islamicate Middle East: Reflections after Heng	1
Continuous Pasts: Memory, History, Literature	1
Akshya Saxena, Vernacular English: Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India. Princeton University Press, 2019, 233 pp.	1
Decolonizing African and African Diasporan Cultural Memory in Djanet Sears and M. NourbeSe Philip’s Works	1
Nested Frameworks of Unfreedom in Freedom Inc.	1
The Postcolonial Uncanny in “Toba Tek Singh”	1
Continuous Pasts: A Review	1
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.	1
Aftermaths Without End	1

The Translational Turn and the Dual Pressures on Chinese Literary Studies	1
Creolization, Hybridity and Archipelagic Thinking: Interrogating Inscriptions of Postcolonial Agency	1
The Dream of Psychosocial Thinking	0
Modes of Cosmopolitanism in Waguih Ghali’s Egypt in Beer in the Snooker Club	0
Difficult Diasporas: The Transnational Feminist Aesthetic of the Black Atlantic By Samantha Pinto New York University Press, 2013, 271 pp.	0
The Invention of Race and the Postcolonial Renaissance	0
Sakiru Adebayo’s Continuous Pasts and the Challenge of Postcolonizing Memory Studies: Three Musings	0
(In)Sights from Àwòrán: Yorùbá Epistemologies and the Limits of Cartesian Vision in Teju Cole’s Open City	0
Continuous Pasts: Memory as Historicity	0
African Literatures in the Portuguese Language: Singularities	0
Requiem for a Dream	0
Encountering Others’ Empathy Toward Oneself in Marlene van Niekerk’sAgaat	0
“On Reading Mau Mau”	0
Linguistic Hybridization in the Emergence of Creoles	0
Naminata Diabate, Naked Agency: Genital Cursing and Biopolitics in Africa. Duke University Press, 2020, 259 pp.	0
Pandemic Metaphors	0
Primitivism in the Peripheries: Reflections on Auritro Majumder’s Insurgent Imaginations: World Literature and the Periphery	0
Communities Are Complicated; Indeed, They May Not Even Be Communal	0
Review essay on African Ecomedia and Teaching Postcolonial Environmental Literature	0
The African Novel at the Vanguard	0
“A Refugee from Belief”: Agha Shahid Ali’s Poetics of Rupture	0
Academia, Activism, and Popular Consciousness: A Response to Freedom Inc.	0
Response to the Responses to Modernism, Empire, World Literature	0
Creolization as Method	0
“The Quickening Virtue”: Reiterating the Work of the Literary Text	0
PLI volume 9 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	0
Queens of the Mother City: A Queer Investigation into the Roots of Cape Town’s Royals	0
Peter J. Kalliney, The Aesthetic Cold War: Decolonization and Global Literature. Princeton University Press, 2022, 336 pp.	0
Refugees, Extinction, and the Regulation of Death in Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men	0
Literary Studies Beyond “The Colonial Book”: A Response to Isabel Hofmeyr’s Dockside Reading: Hydrocolonialism and the Custom House	0
Individual Epistemes in The African Novel of Ideas	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
As If You Were There	0
Pandemic / Critic	0
Terrestrial Realism and the Gravity of World Literature: Joe Sacco’s Seismic Lines	0
Latinx Internationalism and the French Atlantic: Sandra María Esteves in Art contre/against apartheid and Miguel Algarín in “Tangiers”	0
PLI volume 9 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	0
Places of Body: On Authors, Lives, and Agency	0
Campus Fiction and Critical University Studies from Below: Disgrace, Welcome to Our Hillbrow, and the Postcolonial University at the Millennium	0
Cold War Decolonization	0
Independent Publishing in Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, and Guinea-Bissau	0
What I Have Learned	0
In Other Theories: Colonial Reason, Language, And Literature in Ankhi Mukherjee’s Unseen City	0
The Tongue-Tied Imagination: Decolonising Literary Modernity in Senegal By Tobias Warner Fordham University Press, 2019, 342 pp.	0
Empire, Disease, and the Necessity of Critique	0
Communal Intellection and Individualism in the African Novel	0
PLI volume 10 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	0
Lindsey B. Green-Simms, Queer African Cinemas. Duke University Press, 2022, 250 pp.	0
Violence, Memory, and History: Geoffrey of Monmouth and Kazuo Ishiguro’sThe Buried Giant	0
Affective Disorders: Emotion in Colonial and Postcolonial Literature By Bede Scott Liverpool University Press, 2019, 190 pp.	0

Places of Mind: A Response	0
PLI volume 10 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	0
Bahriye Kemal, Writing Cyprus: Postcolonial and Partitioned Literatures of Place and Space. Routledge, 2020, 312 pp.	0
“Not just for their own use …”: Solidarity in Times of Discord	0
From the Heart of the Country to the European Core: J. M. Coetzee andlos polacos	0
Fiction Beyond Words: Music in J. M. Coetzee’s Jesus Novels	0
On a Double Decker Omnibus to Golders Green	0
Edward Said and the Dialectic of the “Imperialized” Intellectual	0
Cormac McCarthy’s Racial Fictions: Race in Blood Meridian’s Colonial Imagination	0
Wael B. Hallaq, Reforming Modernity: Ethics and the New Human in the Philosophy of Abdurrahman Taha. Columbia University Press, 2019, 359 pp.	0
Christopher E. W. Ouma, Childhood in Contemporary Diasporic African Literature: Memories and Futures Past Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, 202 pp.	0
Forum on Joe Cleary’s Modernism, Empire, and World Literature	0
J. Daniel Elam, World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth: Anticolonial Aesthetics, Postcolonial Politics. Fordham University Press, 2021, xiv + 192 pp.	0
Jarad Zimbler, ed., The Cambridge Companion to J. M. Coetzee. Cambridge University Press, 2020, 274 pp.	0
Senegalese New(s) Media: Transpositions and Transformations of the Fait Divers in Aminata Maïga Ka	0
PLI volume 10 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	0
The Historiographies of Premodern Critical Race Studies and Jewish Studies	0
Enduring Epidemic: Aesthetic Aftershocks of the 1914 Plague and the Segregation of Dakar	0
A Transnational Canon of African Literatures in Portuguese?: Mia Couto, José Eduardo Agualusa and the Circulation of Lusophone African Literature	0
All That Is Solid Falls from the Sky: Modernity and the Volume of World Literature	0
PLI volume 10 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	0
PLI volume 8 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	0
The Luso-African Literary World: Introduction	0
Of Pustules and Peripheries	0
“Language and the Periphery” Response to Book Forum on Insurgent Imaginations: World Literature and the Periphery	0
Postcolonialism without Colonialism: Vestiges of a Method	0
PLI volume 9 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	0
Returning the Symptom to Critique: Reading Epidemiologically	0
Epidemic Ecstasy	0
Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Postcolonial Bergson. Fordham University Press, 2019, 144 pp.	0
Brazil—A New Republic of African Letters?	0
Nation and Sovereignty: A Response to Boyarin	0
The Informal Economy in Masande Ntshanga’sThe Reactive	0
Stumbling Upon the Archive	0
An Ineffable Haunting: Language, Embodiment, and Ghosts in Toni Morrison’s Beloved	0
Edward Said and Philosophy	0
A Perpetuity of Lesser Emptiness: The Social Space of the Postcolonial Small Town and Vinod Kumar Shukla’s Naukar kī kamīz	0
Solidarity and the Medieval Invention of Race	0
PLI volume 8 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	0
Philip Dickinson, Romanticism and Aesthetic Life in Postcolonial Writing. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, 184 pp.	0
The Eurocentric Constant: An Approach to the Study of Mozambican Literature	0
Bad Subjects of Good Freedoms	0
Rochona Majumdar, Art Cinema and India’s Forgotten Futures: Film and History in the Postcolony. Columbia University Press, 2021, 320 pp.	0
Comments on “The New Jewish Question”	0
Expanding Freedom: A Response	0
The Cultural Underground of Decolonization – CORRIGENDUM	0
Mara de Gennaro, Modernism after Postcolonialism: Toward a Nonterritorial Comparative Literature. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020, 229 pp.	0
Caribbean Modernism and Cleary’s Modernism, Empire, and World Literature	0
Peripheral Convergences	0
Mobility as Memory: Refiguring Temporal and Spatial Mobility in Tan Twan Eng’s The Gift of Rain	0
The New Jewish Question	0
Matsotsi: The Migrant Detective and the Postcolonial State	0
The Creolizing Turn and Its Archipelagic Directions	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
What African Philosophy Can Learn from Jeanne-Marie Jackson’s The African Novel of Ideas	0
James Yékú, Cultural Netizenship: Social Media, Popular Culture, and Performance in Nigeria. Indiana University Press, 2022, 292 pp.	0
Continuous Pasts, Arrested Futures: Memory, Fiction, and the Postcolonial Condition in Africa	0
More of a Question than a Comment: A Response to Modernism, Empire, World Literature, by Joe Cleary	0
The Stakes of Internationalism	0
The Politics of Breastfeeding in Northeast Indian Literature	0
The Invention of Race and the Status of Blackness	0
Reader Response to Dockside Reading	0
PLI volume 9 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	0
Stories of the Port: Response to Isabel Hofmeyr, Dockside Reading: Hydrocolonialism and the Custom House	0
A Voice in the Crowd: The African Novel of Ideas Book Forum Response	0
The Irreparable Library	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