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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
‘I Am Powerful’: Agency, Autonomy and Audacity in Sefi Atta’sA Bit of Difference	3
Dust Explodes for All to See: Narrating the Actual in a Time of Continuous Disaster	3
Two Poems by Leanne Stillerman Zabow	3
Subtlety, Understatement and Omission in The Lord of the Rings	3
A Response	3
Notes on Contributors	3
Modernisms and Modernities in Achebe’sThings Fall Apart	3
Betty Molteno and the Creation of a South African Nineteenth-Century Lesbian Discourse	2
Millenarian Modernism in H. I. E. Dhlomo’sThe Girl who Killed to Save	2
Paying Homage to Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway: Revision and Reversion in Fiona Melrose’s Johannesburg	2
COVID-19 and African Postage Stamps	2
Uncanny Times: The Case of Eugene de Kock	2
Introduction: Damon Galgut’s The Promise and the Booker Prize Double Bind	2
Relational Resilience in The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After and Call Me American: A Memoir	1
Green Dream	1
The Arrival from Abroad: Train Travel and Mobile Ideas of Race in Pre-Apartheid South African Literature	1
Journeying through Nairobi: Mapping the City through Prize-Winning Stories	1
‘For a Further Union’: Conceptions of Unity in the Later W.B. Yeats and T.S. Eliot	1
Their Galgut, Our Galgut: A Complimentary Rant on the Booker Prize	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
The Modern Tragic Animal in the Zoo: A Zoocritical Reading of The Hairy Ape	1
Sekhmet and the Shaman: Extinction, Ferality and Trans-species Connections in Henrietta Rose-Innes’ Green Lion	1
An End in Itself: Genre, Apocalypse and the Archive in Deon Meyer’s Fever	1
Introduction: Moving Publicly, Writing Mobility: Public Transport in African Literatures	1

Re-imagining a New Normal: COVID-19 Pandemic and the Changing Face of Social Interaction	1
Public Transport in Pre-Apartheid Literary Johannesburg: Between Progress and Oppression	1
Transportation and Agon in Chinua Achebe’s No Longer at Ease and Anthills of the Savannah	1
Self/Isolation	1
Formula in the Praise Chants of Chief Adolphus Munamuna,Ọụbẹbẹ Kẹnị Ịzọn Ibe(The Chief Oral Poet of the Ịzọn Nation)	1
Within the Landscape: A Postcolonial Ecocritical Reading of Yvonne Vera’s Butterfly Burning	1
Literary Encounters: The Beat Generation, Poland and South Africa, 1948–1968	1
Masked Masterpieces: in R≡lational Folds	1
Sonification and Music: Science meets Art	1
“Black Hamlet”	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
Acting Across Diaspora: Transnational Spaces and Voices in Hala Alyan’s The Arsonists’ City	1
Memory Book as a New Genre of Illness Writing: How a Ugandan Mother Wrote about HIV	1
Plague and Cultural Panic: Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Masque of the Red Death’	1
Towards a Poetics of Disaster: Chinese Poetry in Combatting COVID-19	1
Hero	1
Dan Wylie’s Poetry and a New Default Discourse for the Earth	0
Suffering and Greatness: Metaphor, Will and Self-reference in The Flying Dutchman	0
Notes on Contributors	0
Nairobi Street-Aesthetics: Distance and Proximity in the Aesthetics of Everyday Life in the Green City	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
The Desiring Girl in South African Young Adult Fiction	0
In the Centre of the Cosmos: Sacred Spacetime in Niyi Osundare’s ‘A Song for Olosunta’	0
Notes on Contributors	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
‘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
Tick Tock	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
Ways of Being: Water Spirits in Mia Couto’s Sleepwalking Land (1992)	0
Elemental Humanity in Bessie Head’s When Rain Clouds Gather	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
The Sea and Underwater Transport in Imraan Coovadia’s The Institute for Taxi Poetry	0
Introduction: South African and African Modernism – Beyond a Century, Beyond the Provisional	0
Fever Dreams: Surveying the Representation of Plagues and Pandemics in South African Speculative Fiction	0
Black Hamlet: A Script in Search of a Stage	0
Correction	0
‘As others feel pain in their lungs’: Albert Camus’sThe Plague	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
A Piece of My Self: The ‘Wound’ in the Writing of Richard Ford	0
Mobility and Public Transport in Post-independence Mozambican Fiction (1992-2022)	0
Exploring Institutionalized Oppression in The Book of Not (2006)	0
Criteria of Embarrassment: J.M. Coetzee’s ‘Jesus Trilogy’ and the Legacy of Modernist Difficulty	0

Correction	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
‘Too Uncompromising a Figure to be So Disposed of’: Virginia Woolf and/on Olive Schreiner	0
‘[T]o Make us Complete as Human Beings’: Soil as the Bedrock of Collected Memories in Niq Mhlongo’s Paradise in Gaza	0
The Limits of Hydro-modernity: A Hydro-critical Reading of Kariba Dam in Selected Texts	0
Will the COVID-19 Crisis Lead to a Fourth Wave of Neo-nationalism?	0
Near Symmetries: The Transnational Modernism of Edward Wolfe and William Plomer	0
Two Paintings	0
Ten Chinese COVID-19 Poets	0
Brand Recognition: Damon Galgut’s The Promise as National Allegory Plus	0
‘I knew her, Horatio’: Legacies of Shakespearean Performance in South Africa	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
COVID-19: Between Panic, Racism and Social Change	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
‘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
The Room	0
The Plague Years: An Introduction	0