Tydskrif vir Letterkunde

Papers
(The TQCC 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
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Folklore genre designation among the Manden peoples6
Frottage: Frictions of Intimacy across the Black Diaspora (Keguro Macharia)5
Queer, Christian and Afrikaans: The libidinal, sexuality and religion in Kanarie and Skeef4
Culture and Igbo notions of masculinity in Nigerian children’s literature3
Sons of Mud (Johan Vlok Louw)3
“The future is often the past in a different font”: An interview with Osahon Ize-Iyamu3
The History of Man (Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu)2
Creative dynamism and religious syncretism in Igbo oral funeral songs2
Staande ovasie (Herschelle Benjamin et al.)2
And Wrote My Story Anyway: Black South African Women’s Novels as Feminism (Barbara Boswell)2
Unam Wena (Mthunzikazi A. Mbungwana)2
From slave trade to fuel tanks: On Benin’s colonial displacements2
Spoke, liefde en geslagsgebaseerde geweld in “Die bouval op Wilgerdal”1
Die intellektuele geskiedenis van bruin intelligentsia: ’n herbesoek aan P. J. Philander (1921–2006)1
Hullo, Bu-Bye, Koko, Come In (Koleka Putuma)1
Ontaard (Pieter Odendaal)1
Swatland (Ashwin Arendse)1
grond/Santekraam en bientang: Gesitueer in globale swart seeroetes1
’n Huldiging: Karel Schoeman—Stiltes en stemme (Willie Burger, red.)1
Dolf van Niekerk (1929-2022)1
Decima1
Everything is a Deathly Flower (Maneo Mohale)1
“It’s easy to just be normal”: Performative masculinities in Die stropers1
Queer Bodies in African Films (Gibson Ncube)1
Gospel Àpàlà music in African Christian worship: Thematic and stylistic analysis1
Religious metaphors and the crisis of faith in Wole Soyinka’s poetry1
Vanden vos Reynaerde se transformasie tot Reinaard die Jakkals1
Uit die kroes (Lynthia Julius)1
Ama Ata Aidoo (1942–2023)1
Unheimlich moederland. (Anti-)Pastorale Letteren in Zuid-Afrika (Gitte Postel)1
Mobilities and Cosmopolitanisms in African and Afrodiasporic Literatures (Anna-Leena Toivanen)0
Soekenjin0
Geheim van die gruwelsand (Zirk van den Berg)0
kosmos en komete (kaalwoorde/Ané Kotzé)0
Ons skulde (P. P. Fourie)0
Die melkweg en die miskruier0
Hein Willemse: Teen die grein / Against the grain0
Rethinking Literature: My Personal Essays on a Troubled Discipline (Henry Indangasi)0
Flânerie in Valerie Tagwira’s The Uncertainty of Hope0
Womanism in Crépuscule du tourment: Mélancolie by Léonora Miano0
Liminality in Tanzanian Young Adult fiction0
Convivial Worlds: Writing Relation from Africa (Tina Steiner)0
African Performance Arts and Political Acts (Naomi André, Yolanda Covington-Ward & Jendele Hungbo, eds.)0
Aanspreekliheid (Jaco Fouché)0
Hemel en aarde en ons (Zirk van den Berg)0
Narreskip (Johan Myburgh)0
Dreaming in Colour (Uvile Ximba)0
Une si tendre critique: L’Afrique des écrivains migrants d’origine congolaise en Belgique francophone0
Social commentary in the song “Chineke doo” by Sam Ojukwu0
Variations in the application of the components of the oral performance to Yoruba chants0
Autobiographik in Afrika: Literaturgeschichte und Genrevielfalt (Susanne Gehrmann)0
Un futur qui manque: sur quelques pièces de théâtre togolaises0
Alienation in Ntshavheni Alfred Milubi’s poetry0
Tussenganger (Marius Crous)0
Die teks as ’n etiese aanspraak0
Sur l’afrofuturisme, la crise climatique, la toxicité et la magie dans Nos jours brûlés: Entretien avec Laura Nsafou0
Fiction as prosthesis: Reading the contemporary African queer short story0
Innie Shadows (Olivia M. Coetzee)0
Comparative analysis of black queer feminist isiXhosa and English poetry0
Die laaste kanariegeel notaboek (Anchien Troskie)0
Dol heuning (S. J. Naudé)0
Dolf van Niekerk (1929-2022)0
Performance in propitiatory reconciliation among the Nandi community0
Weerskyn (Alwyn Roux)0
Desmond T. Cole (1922–2018)0
Sarraounia, love, and the postcolony0
New Afrikaans-language cinemas / Nuwe Afrikaanstalige rolprentrigtings0
Beertjie en sy boytjies (R.R. Ryger)0
Ilifa (Athambile Masola)0
Laaste kans (Marita van der Vyver)0
Genres of displacement: Rewriting environmental crisis from the African continent / Genres du déplacement : réécrire la crise environnementale depuis le continent africain0
Decolonisation as Democratisation: Global Insights into the South African Experience (Siseko Kumalo, ed.)0
Leo.0
Die groot avontuur: Wondere van die lewe op aarde (Leon Rousseau)0
Transcendent Kingdom (Yaa Gyasi)0
Eastern African women writers' 'national epics': A new force in creative fiction?0
Battling statues enter into dialogue at the Gouvernorat du Haut-Katanga0
Nêrens, Noord-Kaap (Nico Scheepers)0
’n Feministiese ondersoek na Bettina Wyngaard se misdaadfiksie0
A Hibiscus Coast (Nick Mulgrew)0
To listen with decolonial ears: Hein Willemse, hidden histories, and the politics of disruptive intervention0
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As die katjiepiering blom (Audrey Jantjies)0
Voorgevoelens, vertolkings en verklarings: resepsie van ’n 19de-eeuse ǀxam-kum0
Deelfontein (Nicole Jaekel Strauss)0
Bot (Carien Smith)0
Grief, resurrection, and the Nigerian Civil War in Isidore Diala’s The Lure of Ash0
Die laaste kanariegeel notaboek0
Interseksionele feminisme in Afrikaanse poësie: Lynthia Julius se Uit die kroes0
The Promise (Damon Galgut)0
Gender and the Spatiality of Blackness in Contemporary AfroFrench Narratives (Polo B. Moji)0
Surfacing: On Being Black and Feminist in South Africa (Desiree Lewis & Gabeba Baderoon, eds.)0
Pienk ceramic-hondjies (Ryan Pedro)0
Die vermeldingsnetwerk van gekanoniseerde Afrikaanse skrywers in die Afrikaanse literatuurstudie (2000–2020)0
Transitions, transformations, and translocations of African oral literature in the 21st century0
In praise of Ịjọ folklore: A Sailor’s Son by Christian Otobotekere0
Ek is Hendrik Witbooi (Conny Braam)0
Native Life in the Third Millennium (Masande Ntshanga)0
No Cold Kitchen. A Biography of Nadine Gordimer (Ronald Suresh Roberts)0
James Stephen Mzilikazi Khumalo (1932–2021)0
Duimnaelsketse (Johann de Lange)0
Op pad na Moormansgat (Chris Karsten)0
Diana se dag (Helene de Kock)0
Kraai (George Louw)0
Journals editing, editor recognition, and impacting disciplines0
The Garment Workers’ Union’s Pageant of Unity (1940) as manifestation of transnational working-class culture0
The world is a bar: Fiston Mwanza Mujila’s writing beyond ‘Africa’0
'n Hart is so groot soos 'n vuis (P. P. Fourie)0
Orality in Yorùbá films: A study of selected films of Akínwùmí Iṣọ̀lá0
Transnasionale ontlaering / Transnational unlaagering0
The Black Register (Tendayi Sitholo)0
Post-Apartheid Same-Sex Sexualities: Restless Identities in Literary and Visual Culture (Andy `Carolin)0
Help, help0
Oral performance as substitute for ritual: Ekutet, a Teso exhumation ceremony0
Ver in die wêreld (Frederik de Jager, samest.)0
Sydney Clouts’s poetry: Looking inwards, looking outwards0
Kwaaiwater (Irna van Zyl)0
Orisa Sanponna: Indigenous health systems, disability, and morality in Osofisan’s dramaturgy0
The environmental crisis and African women’s displacements in War Girls by Tochi Onyebuchi0
In die gees van die Dionisiese: Marlene van Niekerk se aanhangersbrief aan Freddy Mercury0
The construction of split whiteness in the queer films Kanarie (2018) and Moffie (2019)0
Aan ’n beentjie sit en kluif (Marius Crous)0
Slow beauty: Refocusing Oliver Hermanus’s Skoonheid through a slow cinema lens0
Richard Green in South African Film: Forging Creative New Directions (Keyan G. Tomaselli and Richard Green)0
Alfred Schaffer, Shaka en die transnasionalisme0
Duifeling (Lize Albertyn du-Toit)0
Metaphor patterns in Sesotho fiction: The case of the novel Chaka0
Innovative register and feminist critique in Mark Behr’s The Smell of Apples0
’n Baie lang brief aan my dogter (Marita van der Vyver)0
Dwelm (Rudie van Rensburg)0
The Pride of Noonlay (Shanice Ndlovu)0
Mirage (David Ralph Viviers)0
Die lewe is 'n asem lank: Gedigte oor verlies en vertroosting (Frieda van den Heever, red.)0
Invention of boundaries and identity issues in the story of an anti-colonial war0
Scripting Shame in African Literature (Stephen Bishop)0
Translation Flows: Exploring Networks of People, Processes and Products (Ilse Feinauer, Amanda Marais and Marius Swart, eds.)0
The power of exclusion in the works of André Brink and Assia Djebar0
African(a) Queer Presence: Ethics and Politics of Negotiation (S.N. Nyeck)0
Language, education, and transformation in Bianca Marais’s Hum If You Don’t Know the Words0
The Eternal Audience of One (Rémy Ngamije)0
Buried Treasure (Sven Axelrad)0
Radikaal versus beskeie: Die vroegste vrouestemme teen patriargie in die Suid-Afrikaanse literatuursisteem0
Coming to Afrikaans0
Om die “ruimland […] van nuuts af oop [te] bou”: ’n Woordjie oor Hein Willemse0
The state of Hausa children’s folktales and play-songs in Gombe, Nigeria0
’n Onderhoud met Kirby van der Merwe oor Eugene0
’n Huldiging. Digter van die kwiksilwerwoord: InaRousseau (Daniel Hugo, red.)0
Nomadiese sterre (Joan Hambidge)0
Moederland (Madelein Rust)0
Sexual Humour in Africa: Gender, Jokes, and Societal Change (Ignatius Chukwumah, ed.)0
met die oog op more: ’n versdrama (Antjie Krog)0
Plunder (Antjie Krog)0
Malibongwe (Sono Molefe, ed.)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
Hou jou oë oop (Brian Fredericks)0
Towards reconstructing Africa: Recuperation and responsibility in Ayi Kwei Armah’s The Healers0
Sluitstuk (Johann Rossouw)0
Preliminary notes on topicality and recent pandemic poetry0
bottelnek breek bek (Dianne Du Toit Albertze)0
Foundational African Writers: Peter Abrahams, Noni Jabavu, Sibusiso Nyembezi & Es’kia Mphahlele (Bhekizizwe Peterson, Khwezi Mkhize & Makhosazana Xaba, reds.)0
Gebeente0
Don Jadu (S.E.K. Mqhyai)0
Ons het ver […] versit: Gedigte, toesprake, onderhoude, met ’n essay deur Hein Willemse (Patrick J. Petersen)0
Van vaders en vlugtelinge (S. J. Naudé)0
In-between spaces in Klara du Plessis’s Ekke: Identity, language and art0
Can Themba: The Making and Breaking of the Intellectual Tsotsi, a Biography (Siphiwo Mahala)0
Eugene (Kirby van der Merwe)0
Fool's Gold (Arja Salafranca, ed.)0
Afrika-oraliteit by Eugène Marais: die wisselwerking tussen enkele “Sangedigte” en Dwaalstories0
’n Interseksionele ondersoek: Godsdiens, feminisme, identiteit en behoort in geselekteerde digbundels0
The post-heroism of Stuur Groete aan Mannetjies Roux and Verraaiers0
Die kapokdokter (François Loots)0
Speculative vertices, Ogun mythopoesis, and (the) fourth/further stage(s)0
At Penpoint: African Literatures, Postcolonial Studies and the Cold War (Monica Popescu)0
Each Mortal Thing (Michiel Heyns)0
Hulle noem haar Carminda0
Die Alpe, anime en Afrikaans: “Heidi” as transnasionale teks en kultuurproduk0
Van pelgrims en planete: ’n Onderhoud met Ingrid Winterbach0
La République Démocratique du Congo: dramaturgies du conflit (idées et formes)0
Some new perspectives on the Soweto uprising: H. M. L. Lentsoane’s poem “Black Wednesday” (“Laboraro le lesoleso”)0
War and the subaltern: Voice as power in Buchi Emecheta’s Destination Biafra0
Les traductions des œuvres littéraires de langue française en Afrique du Sud0
an/other pastoral (Tjawangwa Dema)0
In die rede geval: Waarom die mens mites maak (Charl-Pierre Naudé)0
As die Cape Flats kon praat (Brian Fredericks)0
Aardling (Zandra Bezuidenhout)0
Stories of Fathers, Stories of the Nation: Fatherhood and Paternal Power in South African Literature (Grant Andrews)0
Plaasfeminism in Ronelda S. Kamfer’s Kompoun (2021)0
The “African male literary tradition” and revisionist polemics in Isidore Okpewho’s writing0
Stand-up documentary: An emerging narrative device in Yvonne Orji’s comedy0
Relasionele ontologie en posthumanistiese subjektiwiteit in Pieter Odendaal se poësiedebuut0
Die man wattie kinnes vang (Nathan Trantraal)0
Reinaard die vos. ’n Vrye vertaling van Van den vos Reynaerde (H. J. Pieterse)0
A feminist analysis of ‘Dhako en …’ (A woman is …) proverbs among the Luo community of Kenya0
’n Geskiedenis van Afrikaans as kerktaal: van altaar tot kansel0
“We’ve had enough of being trapped in this derelict pondok of history”: An interview with Zoë Wicomb0
The seeing eye, the narrating I: Animals in Eben Venter’s Decima (2023)0
Stasies0
Feminismes en Suid-Afrikaanse letterkundes / Feminisms and South African literatures0
Masking death: Covid-19 inspired humour in the everyday orality of a Luo community in Kenya0
Vuurvoël (Elmarie Viljoen-Massyn)0
Kinderlê (Lynthia Julius)0
Citizenship and social status in Miriam Tlali’s Muriel at Metropolitan0
Soe rond ommie bos (Veronique Jephtas)0
Gewete, transformasie en herinnering op die Rooiplein0
Exploring ecofeminism, ecocriticism, aquapoetics, and environmental humanities in Gabeba Baderoon’s poetry0
Gender and power as negotiated in Bukusu circumcision ceremonies0
Euphrase Kezilahabi (1944-2020)0
Lesser Violence: Volume 1 (Amie Soudien, ed.)0
Return to the Scene of the Crime: The Returnee Detective and Postcolonial Detective Fiction (Kamil Naicker)0
Dockside Reading: Hydrocolonialism and the Custom House (Isabel Hofmeyr)0
Civilising Grass: The Art of the Lawn on the South African Highveld (Jonathan Cane)0
Vier susters (Gerda Taljaard)0
Nature, Environment, and Activism in Nigerian Literature (Sule E. Egya)0
Doolhof (Rudie van Rensburg)0
Al wat tel (Irma Venter)0
Die soeke na 'n onbegrensdheid van verbeelding: 'n Onderhoud met Alfred Schaffer0
Inkwenkwezi efihlakeleyo (K. Sello Duiker, translated by Xolisa Guzula)0
Simoelégri: Stad van onrus (Jaco Fouché)0
Botswana Women Write (Maitseo M.M Bolaane, Mary S. Lederer, Leloba S. Molema and Connie Rapoo, eds,)0
Nou in infrarooi (Tom Dreyer)0
Vin (Lien Botha)0
Hein Willemse: Select bibliography0
African speculative fiction as Indigenous remembering: Contrasting stories by Jonathan Dotse and Masima Musodza0
“’n Koningin volg hom”: Volkome vrou (1976) as antifeministiese agent0
Will, the Passenger Delaying Flight… (Barbara Adair)0
Die afbakening van die kern van die Afrikaanse poësiesisteem (2000–2022)0
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