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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Two Poems by Phelelani Makhanya	3
Subtlety, Understatement and Omission in The Lord of the Rings	3
Re-imagining a New Normal: COVID-19 Pandemic and the Changing Face of Social Interaction	3
The Plague Years: An Introduction	3
Dust Explodes for All to See: Narrating the Actual in a Time of Continuous Disaster	2
In the Centre of the Cosmos: Sacred Spacetime in Niyi Osundare’s ‘A Song for Olosunta’	2
Near Symmetries: The Transnational Modernism of Edward Wolfe and William Plomer	2
Two Poems by Leanne Stillerman Zabow	2
Gods for Sale: Religious Appropriation and Capitalism in Okey Ndibe’s Foreign Gods Inc .	1
COVID-19 and African Postage Stamps	1
Correction	1
Transportation and Agon in Chinua Achebe’s No Longer at Ease and Anthills of the Savannah	1
Reading Resistance in Damon Galgut’s The Promise : An Analysis of Narrative Perspective	1
Exploring Institutionalized Oppression in The Book of Not (2006)	1
Against Indifference: Lyric Documentation in Khaled Mattawa’s Mare Nostrum (2019)	1
Sonification and Music: Science meets Art	1
Introduction: Damon Galgut’s The Promise and the Booker Prize Double Bind	1
The Desiring Girl in South African Young Adult Fiction	1
Millenarian Modernism in H. I. E. Dhlomo’sThe Girl who Killed to Save	1
Hydropolitical Textualities	1
‘Good’ South African Literature: The Booker Prize, its Infatuation with the Postcolonial and Damon Galgut’s The Promise	1
Ways of Being: Water Spirits in Mia Couto’s Sleepwalking Land (1992)	1
‘I Am Powerful’: Agency, Autonomy and Audacity in Sefi Atta’sA Bit of Difference	1
‘These Super People’: The Superimposition of Ted Hughes’ ‘Brasilia’ on Sylvia Plath’s ‘Brasilia’	1
Green Dream	1

Elemental Humanity in Bessie Head’s When Rain Clouds Gather	1
‘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	1
A Response	1
An End in Itself: Genre, Apocalypse and the Archive in Deon Meyer’s Fever	1
Active Thumbs, Confined Bodies: Eluding the ‘Insect’ in Times of the Plague	1
Within the Landscape: A Postcolonial Ecocritical Reading of Yvonne Vera’s Butterfly Burning	1
Their Galgut, Our Galgut: A Complimentary Rant on the Booker Prize	1
Notes on Contributors	1
“Black Hamlet”	1
Masked Masterpieces: in R≡lational Folds	1
‘I will not eat with you’: Shylock and the Value of Vegetarianism in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice (1598)	1
Glimpses of Lagos Through Vehicle Windows: The Motorized Returnee and Transient ‘Home’ in Teju Cole’s Every Day is for the Thief	0
A Piece of My Self: The ‘Wound’ in the Writing of Richard Ford	0
Relational Resilience in The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After and Call Me American: A Memoir	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
Cooking Your Goose: Chaucer’s Food and the Realist Mode	0
Criteria of Embarrassment: J.M. Coetzee’s ‘Jesus Trilogy’ and the Legacy of Modernist Difficulty	0
Tick Tock	0
Suffering and Greatness: Metaphor, Will and Self-reference in The Flying Dutchman	0
Brand Recognition: Damon Galgut’s The Promise as National Allegory Plus	0
Will the COVID-19 Crisis Lead to a Fourth Wave of Neo-nationalism?	0
The Room	0
Some Speculative Musings on COVID-19 Affectivity, Raymond Williams’ ‘Structure of Feeling’ and Zadie Smith’s Intimations	0
Notes on Contributors	0
Correction	0
Formula in the Praise Chants of Chief Adolphus Munamuna,Ọụbẹbẹ Kẹnị Ịzọn Ibe(The Chief Oral Poet of the Ịzọn Nation)	0
Street Art and the Reconfiguration of Civic Advocacy in Nairobi City	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
Fever Dreams: Surveying the Representation of Plagues and Pandemics in South African Speculative Fiction	0
Betty Molteno and the Creation of a South African Nineteenth-Century Lesbian Discourse	0
The Limits of Hydro-modernity: A Hydro-critical Reading of Kariba Dam in Selected Texts	0
Uncanny Times: The Case of Eugene de Kock	0
Public Transport in Pre-Apartheid Literary Johannesburg: Between Progress and Oppression	0
Notes on Contributors	0
‘Home is Another Country’: A Foucauldian Reading of Sisonke Msimang’s Always Another Country	0
Imprints of Indigenes and the Optics of Settlement: A Bifocal Reading ofSummer on the LakesandA Millimetre of Dust	0
Introduction: Moving Publicly, Writing Mobility: Public Transport in African Literatures	0
Paying Homage to Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway: Revision and Reversion in Fiona Melrose’s Johannesburg	0
‘For a Further Union’: Conceptions of Unity in the Later W.B. Yeats and T.S. Eliot	0
‘As others feel pain in their lungs’: Albert Camus’sThe Plague	0
Literary Encounters: The Beat Generation, Poland and South Africa, 1948–1968	0
Towards a Poetics of Disaster: Chinese Poetry in Combatting COVID-19	0
Notes on Contributors	0
Two Paintings	0
‘[T]o Make us Complete as Human Beings’: Soil as the Bedrock of Collected Memories in Niq Mhlongo’s Paradise in Gaza	0
‘I knew her, Horatio’: Legacies of Shakespearean Performance in South Africa	0
Black Hamlet: A Script in Search of a Stage	0
Plague and Cultural Panic: Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Masque of the Red Death’	0
‘Too Uncompromising a Figure to be So Disposed of’: Virginia Woolf and/on Olive Schreiner	0
Acting Across Diaspora: Transnational Spaces and Voices in Hala Alyan’s The Arsonists’ City	0

The Arrival from Abroad: Train Travel and Mobile Ideas of Race in Pre-Apartheid South African Literature	0
From the Politics of Forgetting to the Ethics of Remembering: The Postcolonial Sublime in J. M. Coetzee’sWaiting for the Barbarians	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
Deadly Journeys: Thabo Jijana’s Nobody’s Business , the Minibus Taxi Industry, and the Racial Politics of Mobility in Post-Apartheid South Africa	0
COVID-19: Between Panic, Racism and Social Change	0
Introduction: South African and African Modernism – Beyond a Century, Beyond the Provisional	0
Modernisms and Modernities in Achebe’sThings Fall Apart	0
The Modern Tragic Animal in the Zoo: A Zoocritical Reading of The Hairy Ape	0
Self/Isolation	0
Racialized Railway Mobilities: Repression and Resistance in the Anglophone South African Short Story During the Drum Decade	0
The Sea and Underwater Transport in Imraan Coovadia’s The Institute for Taxi Poetry	0
Ten Chinese COVID-19 Poets	0
Ancient Chinese Poetry and Chinese Calligraphy in Combatting COVID-19	0
Hero	0
Sekhmet and the Shaman: Extinction, Ferality and Trans-species Connections in Henrietta Rose-Innes’ Green Lion	0
Journeying through Nairobi: Mapping the City through Prize-Winning Stories	0
Nairobi Street-Aesthetics: Distance and Proximity in the Aesthetics of Everyday Life in the Green City	0
The Boda Boda (R)age: Economies of Affection in the Motorbike Taxis of Kenya	0
Memory Book as a New Genre of Illness Writing: How a Ugandan Mother Wrote about HIV	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