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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Subtlety, Understatement and Omission in The Lord of the Rings	6
‘I Am Powerful’: Agency, Autonomy and Audacity in Sefi Atta’sA Bit of Difference	5
Uncanny Times: The Case of Eugene de Kock	4
Introduction: Damon Galgut’s The Promise and the Booker Prize Double Bind	4
Intersex Bodies, Literary Representation and Cultural Intersectionality: Gender Bounding Violence in An Ordinary Wonder (2021)	4
A Response	4
Public Transport in Pre-Apartheid Literary Johannesburg: Between Progress and Oppression	3
Betty Molteno and the Creation of a South African Nineteenth-Century Lesbian Discourse	3
The Arrival from Abroad: Train Travel and Mobile Ideas of Race in Pre-Apartheid South African Literature	3
‘For a Further Union’: Conceptions of Unity in the Later W.B. Yeats and T.S. Eliot	3
A Watery Umwelt: Intercorporeal Currents in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves and Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s Philosophy	2
Introduction: Moving Publicly, Writing Mobility: Public Transport in African Literatures	2
Street Art and the Reconfiguration of Civic Advocacy in Nairobi City	2
“Black Hamlet”	2
‘To oppose and to give to one another without sacrificing themselves’: Gifts in Damon Galgut’s The Promise	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
Transportation and Agon in Chinua Achebe’s No Longer at Ease and Anthills of the Savannah	2
Amorous Materialism: Jousting with Courtly Love in Wole Soyinka’s The Interpreters	2
Journeying through Nairobi: Mapping the City through Prize-Winning Stories	2
Claire Keegan’s Small Things Like These (2021) as an Existentialist Fable	1
Acting Across Diaspora: Transnational Spaces and Voices in Hala Alyan’s The Arsonists’ City	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
Making Kin?: Creation and Monstrosity in Mohale Mashigo’s ‘Little Vultures’ (2018)	1
Yvonne Vera’s Ode to the Shebeen Queen: Butterfly Burning ’s Deliwe	1

Relational Resilience in The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After and Call Me American: A Memoir	1
Sekhmet and the Shaman: Extinction, Ferality and Trans-species Connections in Henrietta Rose-Innes’ Green Lion	1
Their Galgut, Our Galgut: A Complimentary Rant on the Booker Prize	1
‘Home is Another Country’: A Foucauldian Reading of Sisonke Msimang’s Always Another Country	1
White Moral Projects and the Impossibility of Racial Repair: A Reflection on White Shame and Black (Dis)Inheritance in Damon Galgut’s The Promise	1
On Editing South African Fiction	1
From the Politics of Forgetting to the Ethics of Remembering: The Postcolonial Sublime in J. M. Coetzee’sWaiting for the Barbarians	1
Literary Encounters: The Beat Generation, Poland and South Africa, 1948–1968	1
In Poland, or Elsewhere: Cartographies of Central European Anti-Ecumene in Isaac Bashevis Singer’s The King of the Fields and Dan Jacobson’s	1
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 Gaza	1
Cooking Your Goose: Chaucer’s Food and the Realist Mode	0
Hydropolitical Textualities	0
Correction	0
Archipelagic Modernity and Errant Memory in Bertrand d’Espaignet’s La République des Bâtards	0
Racialized Railway Mobilities: Repression and Resistance in the Anglophone South African Short Story During the Drum Decade	0
Against Indifference: Lyric Documentation in Khaled Mattawa’s Mare Nostrum (2019)	0
Suffering and Greatness: Metaphor, Will and Self-reference in The Flying Dutchman	0
Nairobi Street-Aesthetics: Distance and Proximity in the Aesthetics of Everyday Life in the Green City	0
Thoreau’s Confucian Translation, Non-Cultivation and Eco-Dao Poetics	0
‘I will not eat with you’: Shylock and the Value of Vegetarianism in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice (1598)	0
Correction	0
Notes on Contributors	0
Imagining African Public Spaces: Justice, Identity and National Anxieties in Late-Sixteenth- and Early-Seventeenth-Century English Drama	0
‘Good’ South African Literature: The Booker Prize, its Infatuation with the Postcolonial and Damon Galgut’s The Promise	0
‘I knew her, Horatio’: Legacies of Shakespearean Performance in South Africa	0
Glimpses of Lagos Through Vehicle Windows: The Motorized Returnee and Transient ‘Home’ in Teju Cole’s Every Day is for the Thief	0
Exploring Institutionalized Oppression in The Book of Not (2006)	0
Imprints of Indigenes and the Optics of Settlement: A Bifocal Reading ofSummer on the LakesandA Millimetre of Dust	0
The Boda Boda (R)age: Economies of Affection in the Motorbike Taxis of Kenya	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
The Limits of Hydro-modernity: A Hydro-critical Reading of Kariba Dam in Selected Texts	0
Bringing a Canon to a Knife-fight – Phenomenological Ethics and Metaphor in Haruki Murakami’s Killing Commendatore	0
The Desiring Girl in South African Young Adult Fiction	0
The Sea and Underwater Transport in Imraan Coovadia’s The Institute for Taxi Poetry	0
Ways of Being: Water Spirits in Mia Couto’s Sleepwalking Land (1992)	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
Gods for Sale: Religious Appropriation and Capitalism in Okey Ndibe’s Foreign Gods Inc .	0
‘These Super People’: The Superimposition of Ted Hughes’ ‘Brasilia’ on Sylvia Plath’s ‘Brasilia’	0
Brand Recognition: Damon Galgut’s The Promise as National Allegory Plus	0
Dan Wylie’s Poetry and a New Default Discourse for the Earth	0
In the Centre of the Cosmos: Sacred Spacetime in Niyi Osundare’s ‘A Song for Olosunta’	0
Black Hamlet : A Script in Search of a Stage	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
Kampala’s Gendered (Im)possibilities in Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi’s Kintu (2014) and The First Woman (202	0
Mobility and Public Transport in Post-independence Mozambican Fiction (1992-2022)	0
Elemental Humanity in Bessie Head’s When Rain Clouds Gather	0
‘The weight of our history is very heavy’: An Interview with Bertrand d’Espaignet, by Sraddha Shivani Rajkomar	0
Reading Resistance in Damon Galgut’s The Promise : An Analysis of Narrative Perspective	0

The House as a Cognitive Space: Memory, Identity and Belonging in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Gravel Heart	0
A Piece of My Self: The ‘Wound’ in the Writing of Richard Ford	0