OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of English Studies in Africa 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Subtlety, Understatement and Omission in The Lord of the Rings	5
Two Poems by Leanne Stillerman Zabow	3
Introduction: Damon Galgut’s The Promise and the Booker Prize Double Bind	3
Dust Explodes for All to See: Narrating the Actual in a Time of Continuous Disaster	3
Millenarian Modernism in H. I. E. Dhlomo’sThe Girl who Killed to Save	3
Notes on Contributors	3
COVID-19 and African Postage Stamps	3
‘I Am Powerful’: Agency, Autonomy and Audacity in Sefi Atta’sA Bit of Difference	3
Uncanny Times: The Case of Eugene de Kock	2
Modernisms and Modernities in Achebe’sThings Fall Apart	2
Paying Homage to Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway: Revision and Reversion in Fiona Melrose’s Johannesburg	2
A Response	2
‘For a Further Union’: Conceptions of Unity in the Later W.B. Yeats and T.S. Eliot	2
Public Transport in Pre-Apartheid Literary Johannesburg: Between Progress and Oppression	2
Intersex Bodies, Literary Representation and Cultural Intersectionality: Gender Bounding Violence in An Ordinary Wonder (2021)	2
‘The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth’: The Anthropomorphism of Earth and Proleptic Ecological Mourning in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road (2006)	2
Betty Molteno and the Creation of a South African Nineteenth-Century Lesbian Discourse	2
Two Paintings	1
Plague and Cultural Panic: Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Masque of the Red Death’	1
Masked Masterpieces: in R≡lational Folds	1
Literary Encounters: The Beat Generation, Poland and South Africa, 1948–1968	1
On Editing South African Fiction	1
Relational Resilience in The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After and Call Me American: A Memoir	1
Transportation and Agon in Chinua Achebe’s No Longer at Ease and Anthills of the Savannah	1
Journeying through Nairobi: Mapping the City through Prize-Winning Stories	1

An End in Itself: Genre, Apocalypse and the Archive in Deon Meyer’s Fever	1
Acting Across Diaspora: Transnational Spaces and Voices in Hala Alyan’s The Arsonists’ City	1
Ancient Chinese Poetry and Chinese Calligraphy in Combatting COVID-19	1
‘Home is Another Country’: A Foucauldian Reading of Sisonke Msimang’s Always Another Country	1
Their Galgut, Our Galgut: A Complimentary Rant on the Booker Prize	1
Sekhmet and the Shaman: Extinction, Ferality and Trans-species Connections in Henrietta Rose-Innes’ Green Lion	1
Claire Keegan’s Small Things Like These (2021) as an Existentialist Fable	1
Introduction: Moving Publicly, Writing Mobility: Public Transport in African Literatures	1
Green Dream	1
Re-imagining a New Normal: COVID-19 Pandemic and the Changing Face of Social Interaction	1
The Arrival from Abroad: Train Travel and Mobile Ideas of Race in Pre-Apartheid South African Literature	1
Memory Book as a New Genre of Illness Writing: How a Ugandan Mother Wrote about HIV	1
Self/Isolation	1
Towards a Poetics of Disaster: Chinese Poetry in Combatting COVID-19	1
Formula in the Praise Chants of Chief Adolphus Munamuna,Ọụbẹbẹ Kẹnị Ịzọn Ibe(The Chief Oral Poet of the Ịzọn Nation)	1
The Modern Tragic Animal in the Zoo: A Zoocritical Reading of The Hairy Ape	1
Within the Landscape: A Postcolonial Ecocritical Reading of Yvonne Vera’s Butterfly Burning	1
Sonification and Music: Science meets Art	1
“Black Hamlet”	1
A Watery Umwelt: Intercorporeal Currents in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves and Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s Philosophy	1
Street Art and the Reconfiguration of Civic Advocacy in Nairobi City	1
From the Politics of Forgetting to the Ethics of Remembering: The Postcolonial Sublime in J. M. Coetzee’sWaiting for the Barbarians	1
Hero	1
‘I knew her, Horatio’: Legacies of Shakespearean Performance in South Africa	0
Near Symmetries: The Transnational Modernism of Edward Wolfe and William Plomer	0
Criteria of Embarrassment: J.M. Coetzee’s ‘Jesus Trilogy’ and the Legacy of Modernist Difficulty	0
Notes on Contributors	0
The Limits of Hydro-modernity: A Hydro-critical Reading of Kariba Dam in Selected Texts	0
Reading Resistance in Damon Galgut’s The Promise : An Analysis of Narrative Perspective	0
Glimpses of Lagos Through Vehicle Windows: The Motorized Returnee and Transient ‘Home’ in Teju Cole’s Every Day is for the Thief	0
Tick Tock	0
Ten Chinese COVID-19 Poets	0
Two Poems by Phelelani Makhanya	0
Plagues in Palimpsest: Historical Time and Narrative Time in Diane Awerbuck’s Home Remedies, Marcus Low’s Asylum and Russel Brownlee’s Garden of the Plagues	0
‘[T]o Make us Complete as Human Beings’: Soil as the Bedrock of Collected Memories in Niq Mhlongo’s Paradise in Gaza	0
‘As others feel pain in their lungs’: Albert Camus’sThe Plague	0
Making Kin?: Creation and Monstrosity in Mohale Mashigo’s ‘Little Vultures’ (2018)	0
Brand Recognition: Damon Galgut’s The Promise as National Allegory Plus	0
‘Is it a family saga or a farm novel?’ Reading Damon Galgut’s The Promise as a Foil for Metonymic Dispossession and Restitution in the Contemporary South African (Im)mor	0
Gods for Sale: Religious Appropriation and Capitalism in Okey Ndibe’s Foreign Gods Inc .	0
Active Thumbs, Confined Bodies: Eluding the ‘Insect’ in Times of the Plague	0
Against Indifference: Lyric Documentation in Khaled Mattawa’s Mare Nostrum (2019)	0
The Room	0
Exploring Institutionalized Oppression in The Book of Not (2006)	0
Suffering and Greatness: Metaphor, Will and Self-reference in The Flying Dutchman	0
Ways of Being: Water Spirits in Mia Couto’s Sleepwalking Land (1992)	0
Nairobi Street-Aesthetics: Distance and Proximity in the Aesthetics of Everyday Life in the Green City	0
The Plague Years: An Introduction	0
Dan Wylie’s Poetry and a New Default Discourse for the Earth	0
Mobility and Public Transport in Post-independence Mozambican Fiction (1992-2022)	0

Notes on Contributors	0
Deadly Journeys: Thabo Jijana’s Nobody’s Business , the Minibus Taxi Industry, and the Racial Politics of Mobility in Post-Apartheid South Africa	0
White Moral Projects and the Impossibility of Racial Repair: A Reflection on White Shame and Black (Dis)Inheritance in Damon Galgut’s The Promise	0
Elemental Humanity in Bessie Head’s When Rain Clouds Gather	0
Correction	0
Notes on Contributors	0
A Piece of My Self: The ‘Wound’ in the Writing of Richard Ford	0
‘Good’ South African Literature: The Booker Prize, its Infatuation with the Postcolonial and Damon Galgut’s The Promise	0
‘These Super People’: The Superimposition of Ted Hughes’ ‘Brasilia’ on Sylvia Plath’s ‘Brasilia’	0
In the Centre of the Cosmos: Sacred Spacetime in Niyi Osundare’s ‘A Song for Olosunta’	0
Introduction: South African and African Modernism – Beyond a Century, Beyond the Provisional	0
‘Stories have to be told or they die’: A Critique of the Essentialist Paradigms of Female Genital Mutilation and Religion in Nawal El Saadawi’s Woman at Point Zero (1977	0
‘Too Uncompromising a Figure to be So Disposed of’: Virginia Woolf and/on Olive Schreiner	0
‘I will not eat with you’: Shylock and the Value of Vegetarianism in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice (1598)	0
Imprints of Indigenes and the Optics of Settlement: A Bifocal Reading ofSummer on the LakesandA Millimetre of Dust	0
Correction	0
The Sea and Underwater Transport in Imraan Coovadia’s The Institute for Taxi Poetry	0
Black Hamlet: A Script in Search of a Stage	0
COVID-19: Between Panic, Racism and Social Change	0
Fever Dreams: Surveying the Representation of Plagues and Pandemics in South African Speculative Fiction	0
The Desiring Girl in South African Young Adult Fiction	0
Will the COVID-19 Crisis Lead to a Fourth Wave of Neo-nationalism?	0
The Boda Boda (R)age: Economies of Affection in the Motorbike Taxis of Kenya	0
Racialized Railway Mobilities: Repression and Resistance in the Anglophone South African Short Story During the Drum Decade	0
Some Speculative Musings on COVID-19 Affectivity, Raymond Williams’ ‘Structure of Feeling’ and Zadie Smith’s Intimations	0
Cooking Your Goose: Chaucer’s Food and the Realist Mode	0
Hydropolitical Textualities	0