Tydskrif vir Letterkunde

Papers
(The median citation count of Tydskrif vir Letterkunde 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
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Folklore genre designation among the Manden peoples6
“The future is often the past in a different font”: An interview with Osahon Ize-Iyamu4
Religious metaphors and the crisis of faith in Wole Soyinka’s poetry3
Sons of Mud (Johan Vlok Louw)3
Unam Wena (Mthunzikazi A. Mbungwana)3
Queer, Christian and Afrikaans: The libidinal, sexuality and religion in Kanarie and Skeef3
From slave trade to fuel tanks: On Benin’s colonial displacements2
Die intellektuele geskiedenis van bruin intelligentsia: ’n herbesoek aan P. J. Philander (1921–2006)2
Toxic mobilities and the politics of unending in Henrietta Rose-Innes’s “Poison”2
’n Huldiging: Karel Schoeman—Stiltes en stemme (Willie Burger, red.)1
Women’s liberation and protest through transnational storytelling1
Decima1
Ontaard (Pieter Odendaal)1
Social commentary in the song “Chineke doo” by Sam Ojukwu1
Mobilities and Cosmopolitanisms in African and Afrodiasporic Literatures (Anna-Leena Toivanen)1
Gospel Àpàlà music in African Christian worship: Thematic and stylistic analysis1
Vanden vos Reynaerde se transformasie tot Reinaard die Jakkals1
Patriarchal orientations and womanist protests in pre-colonial Urhobo women’s songs1
Récits de vie au Burkina Faso: Enjeux, rhétorique, réception (Edgard Sankara)1
“It’s easy to just be normal”: Performative masculinities in Die stropers1
Liens et dialogues insulaires dans l’océan Indien: des textes poético-critiques au roman mauricien1
Ama Ata Aidoo (1942–2023)1
Spoke, liefde en geslagsgebaseerde geweld in “Die bouval op Wilgerdal”1
Dolf van Niekerk (1929-2022)1
Creative dynamism and religious syncretism in Igbo oral funeral songs1
Can Themba: The Making and Breaking of the Intellectual Tsotsi, a Biography (Siphiwo Mahala)1
Queer Bodies in African Films (Gibson Ncube)1
Hein Willemse: Teen die grein / Against the grain1
Return to the Scene of the Crime: The Returnee Detective and Postcolonial Detective Fiction (Kamil Naicker)0
In die gees van die Dionisiese: Marlene van Niekerk se aanhangersbrief aan Freddy Mercury0
Soekenjin0
Help, help0
Hemel en aarde en ons (Zirk van den Berg)0
An ecocritical reading of Okot p’Bitek’s “Chameleon and Elephant”0
Bloedsomer (Sidney Gilroy)0
Les traductions des œuvres littéraires de langue française en Afrique du Sud0
“Da Art of (Abortion) Storytellin”: Listening for reproductive justice in Black popular music0
Autobiographik in Afrika: Literaturgeschichte und Genrevielfalt (Susanne Gehrmann)0
Sarraounia, love, and the postcolony0
Die man wattie kinnes vang (Nathan Trantraal)0
African Performance Arts and Political Acts (Naomi André, Yolanda Covington-Ward & Jendele Hungbo, eds.)0
Gods, music and rainmaking in Yorùbáland0
Relations between humans and non-humans in Amazigh North African oral literature0
Diana se dag (Helene de Kock)0
Hein Willemse: Select bibliography0
Euphrase Kezilahabi (1944-2020)0
Convivial Worlds: Writing Relation from Africa (Tina Steiner)0
Orality in Yorùbá films: A study of selected films of Akínwùmí Iṣọ̀lá0
Die teks as ’n etiese aanspraak0
New Afrikaans-language cinemas / Nuwe Afrikaanstalige rolprentrigtings0
Richard Green in South African Film: Forging Creative New Directions (Keyan G. Tomaselli and Richard Green)0
Vuurvoël (Elmarie Viljoen-Massyn)0
Reinaard die vos. ’n Vrye vertaling van Van den vos Reynaerde (H. J. Pieterse)0
Die afbakening van die kern van die Afrikaanse poësiesisteem (2000–2022)0
Comparative analysis of black queer feminist isiXhosa and English poetry0
Coming to Afrikaans0
Buried Treasure (Sven Axelrad)0
Inkwenkwezi efihlakeleyo (K. Sello Duiker, translated by Xolisa Guzula)0
Stasies0
Alienation in Ntshavheni Alfred Milubi’s poetry0
’n Onderhoud met Kirby van der Merwe oor Eugene0
Sexual Humour in Africa: Gender, Jokes, and Societal Change (Ignatius Chukwumah, ed.)0
Interseksionele feminisme in Afrikaanse poësie: Lynthia Julius se Uit die kroes0
Die laaste kanariegeel notaboek (Anchien Troskie)0
The seeing eye, the narrating I: Animals in Eben Venter’s Decima (2023)0
Feminismes en Suid-Afrikaanse letterkundes / Feminisms and South African literatures0
Preliminary notes on topicality and recent pandemic poetry0
Radikaal versus beskeie: Die vroegste vrouestemme teen patriargie in die Suid-Afrikaanse literatuursisteem0
Om die “ruimland […] van nuuts af oop [te] bou”: ’n Woordjie oor Hein Willemse0
Die onsigbare (P. J. O. Jonker)0
Bonsaimeisies (Erla Diedericks)0
The impact of women’s singing on political and social mobilization in the Sudanese revolution0
African(a) Queer Presence: Ethics and Politics of Negotiation (S.N. Nyeck)0
Slow beauty: Refocusing Oliver Hermanus’s Skoonheid through a slow cinema lens0
Sur l’afrofuturisme, la crise climatique, la toxicité et la magie dans Nos jours brûlés: Entretien avec Laura Nsafou0
Waterman (Herman Wasserman)0
Gender and the Spatiality of Blackness in Contemporary AfroFrench Narratives (Polo B. Moji)0
To listen with decolonial ears: Hein Willemse, hidden histories, and the politics of disruptive intervention0
From rain-bringer to wealth-giver: Changing forms of the snake in southern African belief systems0
Die kapokdokter (François Loots)0
“’n Koningin volg hom”: Volkome vrou (1976) as antifeministiese agent0
Réinventer l’avenir global dans Rouge impératrice de Léonora Miano: entre afrofuturisme et écotopie0
A corpse is also a garden (Pieter Madibuseng Odendaal)0
My jaar van vrees en vryheid (Marita van der Vyver)0
Petrocapitalism, displacement, and (im)mobilities in Imbolo Mbue’s How Beautiful We Were0
In die rede geval: Waarom die mens mites maak (Charl-Pierre Naudé)0
At Penpoint: African Literatures, Postcolonial Studies and the Cold War (Monica Popescu)0
met die oog op more: ’n versdrama (Antjie Krog)0
Narreskip (Johan Myburgh)0
James Stephen Mzilikazi Khumalo (1932–2021)0
Some new perspectives on the Soweto uprising: H. M. L. Lentsoane’s poem “Black Wednesday” (“Laboraro le lesoleso”)0
Eastern African women writers' 'national epics': A new force in creative fiction?0
Language, education, and transformation in Bianca Marais’s Hum If You Don’t Know the Words0
The language of Black women’s music: MmaAusi’s role in preserving Setswana heritage0
Plunder (Antjie Krog)0
’n Geskiedenis van Afrikaans as kerktaal: van altaar tot kansel0
Foundational African Writers: Peter Abrahams, Noni Jabavu, Sibusiso Nyembezi & Es’kia Mphahlele (Bhekizizwe Peterson, Khwezi Mkhize & Makhosazana Xaba, reds.)0
Kinderlê (Lynthia Julius)0
Genres of displacement: Rewriting environmental crisis from the African continent / Genres du déplacement : réécrire la crise environnementale depuis le continent africain0
’n Feministiese ondersoek na Bettina Wyngaard se misdaadfiksie0
The post-heroism of Stuur Groete aan Mannetjies Roux and Verraaiers0
Mens en klimaat soos uitgebeeld deur Katherine Graham en Abraham H. de Vries0
Patmos: ’n novelle (Willem Anker)0
Nou in infrarooi (Tom Dreyer)0
Kwaaiwater (Irna van Zyl)0
om my kastele in Spanje te sloop (Jaco Barnard-Naudé)0
Don Jadu (S.E.K. Mqhyai)0
Translation Flows: Exploring Networks of People, Processes and Products (Ilse Feinauer, Amanda Marais and Marius Swart, eds.)0
Stand-up documentary: An emerging narrative device in Yvonne Orji’s comedy0
Moederland (Madelein Rust)0
’n Huldiging: Antjie Krog: ’n Ondersoekte lewe (Louise Viljoen, red.)0
Hulle noem haar Carminda0
Invention of boundaries and identity issues in the story of an anti-colonial war0
Lesser Violence: Volume 1 (Amie Soudien, ed.)0
Eugene (Kirby van der Merwe)0
ek en jy bestaan nie (Danie Marais)0
Die lewe is 'n asem lank: Gedigte oor verlies en vertroosting (Frieda van den Heever, red.)0
Dockside Reading: Hydrocolonialism and the Custom House (Isabel Hofmeyr)0
A feminist analysis of ‘Dhako en …’ (A woman is …) proverbs among the Luo community of Kenya0
Ilifa (Athambile Masola)0
Deelfontein (Nicole Jaekel Strauss)0
Al wat tel (Irma Venter)0
Performance in propitiatory reconciliation among the Nandi community0
Citizenship and social status in Miriam Tlali’s Muriel at Metropolitan0
Ons het ver […] versit: Gedigte, toesprake, onderhoude, met ’n essay deur Hein Willemse (Patrick J. Petersen)0
Bot (Carien Smith)0
Battling statues enter into dialogue at the Gouvernorat du Haut-Katanga0
Landuit, want jy wil mos (Zirk van den Berg)0
’n Huldiging. Digter van die kwiksilwerwoord: InaRousseau (Daniel Hugo, red.)0
Oral performance as substitute for ritual: Ekutet, a Teso exhumation ceremony0
Van vaders en vlugtelinge (S. J. Naudé)0
Hou jou oë oop (Brian Fredericks)0
Rainbows in Eastern African folktales: Oral narrative as ecocritical model0
Sluitstuk (Johann Rossouw)0
Humans and non-humans in African verbal arts: Narrativity and environmental poetics at the dawn of the climate crisis—Introduction0
Die laaste kanariegeel notaboek0
Dolf van Niekerk (1929-2022)0
Towards reconstructing Africa: Recuperation and responsibility in Ayi Kwei Armah’s The Healers0
Exploring ecofeminism, ecocriticism, aquapoetics, and environmental humanities in Gabeba Baderoon’s poetry0
Capitalism against the planet: Posthuman ecocriticism in Alistair Mackay’s It Doesn’t Have To Be This Way0
Die dood van Rachel April (P. P. Fourie)0
Desire at the End of the White Line: Notes on the Decolonisation of White Afrikaner Femininity (Azille Coetzee)0
Gebeente0
Variations in the application of the components of the oral performance to Yoruba chants0
Afrika-oraliteit by Eugène Marais: die wisselwerking tussen enkele “Sangedigte” en Dwaalstories0
Weerskyn (Alwyn Roux)0
Fuelling Bodies: Movement, embodiment, and climate crisis in Wanuri Kahiu’s Pumzi0
Ver in die wêreld (Frederik de Jager, samest.)0
Gender and power as negotiated in Bukusu circumcision ceremonies0
The environmental crisis and African women’s displacements in War Girls by Tochi Onyebuchi0
Die melkweg en die miskruier0
Un futur qui manque: sur quelques pièces de théâtre togolaises0
Journals editing, editor recognition, and impacting disciplines0
Landscape histories: Origin narratives and toponyms in the rural commune of Liboré, Niger0
erf en elders (Kleinboer)0
Ons skulde (P. P. Fourie)0
Orisa Sanponna: Indigenous health systems, disability, and morality in Osofisan’s dramaturgy0
La République Démocratique du Congo: dramaturgies du conflit (idées et formes)0
bottelnek breek bek (Dianne Du Toit Albertze)0
Fear, haunting, and the (un)making of borders in Eugène Marais’s “Die huis van die vier winde”0
’n Interseksionele ondersoek: Godsdiens, feminisme, identiteit en behoort in geselekteerde digbundels0
Die grafdigter (Gerda Taljaard)0
Étiologie des métamorphoses du vivant: Le sceau prémonitoire des chauves-souris0
Dwelm (Rudie van Rensburg)0
Metaphor patterns in Sesotho fiction: The case of the novel Chaka0
Liminality in Tanzanian Young Adult fiction0
Innovative register and feminist critique in Mark Behr’s The Smell of Apples0
Leo.0
Prins (Ryan Pedro)0
Doolhof (Rudie van Rensburg)0
Sirkelgang (Johann Lodewyk Marais)0
Laatnageilande (Marlise Joubert)0
Figures de la subjectivité dans Captive, une autofiction de Nadine Ndjomo0
Duifeling (Lize Albertyn du-Toit)0
Verbal art in the ecological discourse of two Amazigh/Berber documentaries0
Binnerym van bloed (Antjie Krog)0
The state of Hausa children’s folktales and play-songs in Gombe, Nigeria0
Desmond T. Cole (1922–2018)0
Sanctum (Joan Hambidge)0
Tracing the (Post)Apartheid Novel beyond 2000 (Danyela Dimakatso Demir & Olivier Moreillon, eds.)0
Queer African Cinemas (Lindsey B. Green-Simms)0
Mirage (David Ralph Viviers)0
Laaste kans (Marita van der Vyver)0
In praise of Ịjọ folklore: A Sailor’s Son by Christian Otobotekere0
an/other pastoral (Tjawangwa Dema)0
Le pasteur, les bovidés et l’environnement dans la tradition orale peule0
Re-defining Ghanaian hiplife songs by women as liberatory narratives0
Transitions, transformations, and translocations of African oral literature in the 21st century0
The world is a bar: Fiston Mwanza Mujila’s writing beyond ‘Africa’0
As die katjiepiering blom (Audrey Jantjies)0
Masking death: Covid-19 inspired humour in the everyday orality of a Luo community in Kenya0
Geheim van die gruwelsand (Zirk van den Berg)0
Op pad na Moormansgat (Chris Karsten)0
The power of exclusion in the works of André Brink and Assia Djebar0
Each Mortal Thing (Michiel Heyns)0
’n Interseksionele lesing van Lynthia Julius se Kinderlê0
Breaking the silence: Zimbabwean women’s musical narratives of resistance0
Womanism in Crépuscule du tourment: Mélancolie by Léonora Miano0
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