English Studies in Africa

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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Subtlety, Understatement and Omission in The Lord of the Rings5
‘I Am Powerful’: Agency, Autonomy and Audacity in Sefi Atta’sA Bit of Difference4
Uncanny Times: The Case of Eugene de Kock3
A Response3
Notes on Contributors3
Modernisms and Modernities in Achebe’sThings Fall Apart3
Millenarian Modernism in H. I. E. Dhlomo’sThe Girl who Killed to Save3
Intersex Bodies, Literary Representation and Cultural Intersectionality: Gender Bounding Violence in An Ordinary Wonder (2021)3
Introduction: Damon Galgut’s The Promise and the Booker Prize Double Bind3
‘For a Further Union’: Conceptions of Unity in the Later W.B. Yeats and T.S. Eliot2
Public Transport in Pre-Apartheid Literary Johannesburg: Between Progress and Oppression2
A Watery Umwelt: Intercorporeal Currents in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves and Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s Philosophy2
Betty Molteno and the Creation of a South African Nineteenth-Century Lesbian Discourse2
The Arrival from Abroad: Train Travel and Mobile Ideas of Race in Pre-Apartheid South African Literature2
Street Art and the Reconfiguration of Civic Advocacy in Nairobi City2
Paying Homage to Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway: Revision and Reversion in Fiona Melrose’s Johannesburg2
Journeying through Nairobi: Mapping the City through Prize-Winning Stories2
‘The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth’: The Anthropomorphism of Earth and Proleptic Ecological Mourning in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road (2006)2
Relational Resilience in The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After and Call Me American: A Memoir1
Sekhmet and the Shaman: Extinction, Ferality and Trans-species Connections in Henrietta Rose-Innes’ Green Lion1
Their Galgut, Our Galgut: A Complimentary Rant on the Booker Prize1
Formula in the Praise Chants of Chief Adolphus Munamuna,Ọụbẹbẹ Kẹnị Ịzọn Ibe(The Chief Oral Poet of the Ịzọn Nation)1
‘[T]o Make us Complete as Human Beings’: Soil as the Bedrock of Collected Memories in Niq Mhlongo’s Paradise in Gaza1
Transportation and Agon in Chinua Achebe’s No Longer at Ease and Anthills of the Savannah1
On Editing South African Fiction1
From the Politics of Forgetting to the Ethics of Remembering: The Postcolonial Sublime in J. M. Coetzee’sWaiting for the Barbarians1
“Black Hamlet”1
Within the Landscape: A Postcolonial Ecocritical Reading of Yvonne Vera’s Butterfly Burning1
White Moral Projects and the Impossibility of Racial Repair: A Reflection on White Shame and Black (Dis)Inheritance in Damon Galgut’s The Promise1
The Sea and Underwater Transport in Imraan Coovadia’s The Institute for Taxi Poetry1
Introduction: Moving Publicly, Writing Mobility: Public Transport in African Literatures1
Claire Keegan’s Small Things Like These (2021) as an Existentialist Fable1
Acting Across Diaspora: Transnational Spaces and Voices in Hala Alyan’s The Arsonists’ City1
Literary Encounters: The Beat Generation, Poland and South Africa, 1948–19681
‘Home is Another Country’: A Foucauldian Reading of Sisonke Msimang’s Always Another Country1
Making Kin?: Creation and Monstrosity in Mohale Mashigo’s ‘Little Vultures’ (2018)1
The Modern Tragic Animal in the Zoo: A Zoocritical Reading of The Hairy Ape1
Amorous Materialism: Jousting with Courtly Love in Wole Soyinka’s The Interpreters1
Correction0
The Desiring Girl in South African Young Adult Fiction0
The Limits of Hydro-modernity: A Hydro-critical Reading of Kariba Dam in Selected Texts0
Ways of Being: Water Spirits in Mia Couto’s Sleepwalking Land (1992)0
‘I knew her, Horatio’: Legacies of Shakespearean Performance in South Africa0
‘Good’ South African Literature: The Booker Prize, its Infatuation with the Postcolonial and Damon Galgut’s The Promise0
A Piece of My Self: The ‘Wound’ in the Writing of Richard Ford0
Notes on Contributors0
Brand Recognition: Damon Galgut’s The Promise as National Allegory Plus0
‘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 (19770
Racialized Railway Mobilities: Repression and Resistance in the Anglophone South African Short Story During the Drum Decade0
Criteria of Embarrassment: J.M. Coetzee’s ‘Jesus Trilogy’ and the Legacy of Modernist Difficulty0
‘Too Uncompromising a Figure to be So Disposed of’: Virginia Woolf and/on Olive Schreiner0
Mobility and Public Transport in Post-independence Mozambican Fiction (1992-2022)0
Elemental Humanity in Bessie Head’s When Rain Clouds Gather0
Exploring Institutionalized Oppression in The Book of Not (2006)0
Notes on Contributors0
Gods for Sale: Religious Appropriation and Capitalism in Okey Ndibe’s Foreign Gods Inc .0
Hydropolitical Textualities0
Against Indifference: Lyric Documentation in Khaled Mattawa’s Mare Nostrum (2019)0
Imprints of Indigenes and the Optics of Settlement: A Bifocal Reading ofSummer on the LakesandA Millimetre of Dust0
Correction0
Dan Wylie’s Poetry and a New Default Discourse for the Earth0
Deadly Journeys: Thabo Jijana’s Nobody’s Business , the Minibus Taxi Industry, and the Racial Politics of Mobility in Post-Apartheid South Africa0
Suffering and Greatness: Metaphor, Will and Self-reference in The Flying Dutchman0
Nairobi Street-Aesthetics: Distance and Proximity in the Aesthetics of Everyday Life in the Green City0
Thoreau’s Confucian Translation, Non-Cultivation and Eco-Dao Poetics0
‘I will not eat with you’: Shylock and the Value of Vegetarianism in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice (1598)0
Reading Resistance in Damon Galgut’s The Promise : An Analysis of Narrative Perspective0
‘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)mor0
Cooking Your Goose: Chaucer’s Food and the Realist Mode0
‘These Super People’: The Superimposition of Ted Hughes’ ‘Brasilia’ on Sylvia Plath’s ‘Brasilia’0
Near Symmetries: The Transnational Modernism of Edward Wolfe and William Plomer0
Glimpses of Lagos Through Vehicle Windows: The Motorized Returnee and Transient ‘Home’ in Teju Cole’s Every Day is for the Thief0
The Boda Boda (R)age: Economies of Affection in the Motorbike Taxis of Kenya0
Black Hamlet: A Script in Search of a Stage0
Introduction: South African and African Modernism – Beyond a Century, Beyond the Provisional0
In the Centre of the Cosmos: Sacred Spacetime in Niyi Osundare’s ‘A Song for Olosunta’0
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