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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
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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
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
Religious metaphors and the crisis of faith in Wole Soyinka’s poetry3
Toxic mobilities and the politics of unending in Henrietta Rose-Innes’s “Poison”2
Die intellektuele geskiedenis van bruin intelligentsia: ’n herbesoek aan P. J. Philander (1921–2006)2
From slave trade to fuel tanks: On Benin’s colonial displacements2
Creative dynamism and religious syncretism in Igbo oral funeral songs2
Glocal memory in the Black Atlantic triad operas by Black women composers1
African American women in opera and the dilemma of representation1
Ama Ata Aidoo (1942–2023)1
“It’s easy to just be normal”: Performative masculinities in Die stropers1
Social commentary in the song “Chineke doo” by Sam Ojukwu1
Vanden vos Reynaerde se transformasie tot Reinaard die Jakkals1
Dolf van Niekerk (1929-2022)1
Wilma Stockenström: Met my wysvingertop (Ronel Foster, red.)1
Récits de vie au Burkina Faso: Enjeux, rhétorique, réception (Edgard Sankara)1
Queer Bodies in African Films (Gibson Ncube)1
Liens et dialogues insulaires dans l’océan Indien: des textes poético-critiques au roman mauricien1
Spoke, liefde en geslagsgebaseerde geweld in “Die bouval op Wilgerdal”1
Decima1
Gospel Àpàlà music in African Christian worship: Thematic and stylistic analysis1
Patriarchal orientations and womanist protests in pre-colonial Urhobo women’s songs1
Ontaard (Pieter Odendaal)1
Can Themba: The Making and Breaking of the Intellectual Tsotsi, a Biography (Siphiwo Mahala)1
Women’s liberation and protest through transnational storytelling1
’n Huldiging: Karel Schoeman—Stiltes en stemme (Willie Burger, red.)1
Coming to Afrikaans0
African Performance Arts and Political Acts (Naomi André, Yolanda Covington-Ward & Jendele Hungbo, eds.)0
Hein Willemse: Select bibliography0
Some new perspectives on the Soweto uprising: H. M. L. Lentsoane’s poem “Black Wednesday” (“Laboraro le lesoleso”)0
Sexual Humour in Africa: Gender, Jokes, and Societal Change (Ignatius Chukwumah, ed.)0
Language, education, and transformation in Bianca Marais’s Hum If You Don’t Know the Words0
Richard Green in South African Film: Forging Creative New Directions (Keyan G. Tomaselli and Richard Green)0
Hein Willemse: Teen die grein / Against the grain0
Stinkhout (Philip Rademeyer)0
Hulle noem haar Carminda0
Interseksionele feminisme in Afrikaanse poësie: Lynthia Julius se Uit die kroes0
Om die “ruimland […] van nuuts af oop [te] bou”: ’n Woordjie oor Hein Willemse0
Sur l’afrofuturisme, la crise climatique, la toxicité et la magie dans Nos jours brûlés: Entretien avec Laura Nsafou0
Alienation in Ntshavheni Alfred Milubi’s poetry0
Dolf van Niekerk (1929-2022)0
Reinaard die vos. ’n Vrye vertaling van Van den vos Reynaerde (H. J. Pieterse)0
Verbal art in the ecological discourse of two Amazigh/Berber documentaries0
Invention of boundaries and identity issues in the story of an anti-colonial war0
Radikaal versus beskeie: Die vroegste vrouestemme teen patriargie in die Suid-Afrikaanse literatuursisteem0
The seeing eye, the narrating I: Animals in Eben Venter’s Decima (2023)0
’n Geskiedenis van Afrikaans as kerktaal: van altaar tot kansel0
Stasies0
A feminist analysis of ‘Dhako en …’ (A woman is …) proverbs among the Luo community of Kenya0
Vuurvoël (Elmarie Viljoen-Massyn)0
Die onsigbare (P. J. O. Jonker)0
Die melkweg en die miskruier0
Fear, haunting, and the (un)making of borders in Eugène Marais’s “Die huis van die vier winde”0
Deelfontein (Nicole Jaekel Strauss)0
Laaste kans (Marita van der Vyver)0
Doolhof (Rudie van Rensburg)0
Tracing the (Post)Apartheid Novel beyond 2000 (Danyela Dimakatso Demir & Olivier Moreillon, eds.)0
The post-heroism of Stuur Groete aan Mannetjies Roux and Verraaiers0
Die grafdigter (Gerda Taljaard)0
Gender and the Spatiality of Blackness in Contemporary AfroFrench Narratives (Polo B. Moji)0
ek en jy bestaan nie (Danie Marais)0
Desire at the End of the White Line: Notes on the Decolonisation of White Afrikaner Femininity (Azille Coetzee)0
Gender and power as negotiated in Bukusu circumcision ceremonies0
Hou jou oë oop (Brian Fredericks)0
Humans and non-humans in African verbal arts: Narrativity and environmental poetics at the dawn of the climate crisis—Introduction0
’n Huldiging. Digter van die kwiksilwerwoord: InaRousseau (Daniel Hugo, red.)0
Van vaders en vlugtelinge (S. J. Naudé)0
Ver in die wêreld (Frederik de Jager, samest.)0
Towards reconstructing Africa: Recuperation and responsibility in Ayi Kwei Armah’s The Healers0
To listen with decolonial ears: Hein Willemse, hidden histories, and the politics of disruptive intervention0
The world is a bar: Fiston Mwanza Mujila’s writing beyond ‘Africa’0
Sluitstuk (Johann Rossouw)0
’n Interseksionele ondersoek: Godsdiens, feminisme, identiteit en behoort in geselekteerde digbundels0
Duifeling (Lize Albertyn du-Toit)0
Gebeente0
Patmos: ’n novelle (Willem Anker)0
Capitalism against the planet: Posthuman ecocriticism in Alistair Mackay’s It Doesn’t Have To Be This Way0
Don Jadu (S.E.K. Mqhyai)0
vloei/stof (Gilbert Gibson)0
Buried Treasure (Sven Axelrad)0
Return to the Scene of the Crime: The Returnee Detective and Postcolonial Detective Fiction (Kamil Naicker)0
At Penpoint: African Literatures, Postcolonial Studies and the Cold War (Monica Popescu)0
Breaking the silence: Zimbabwean women’s musical narratives of resistance0
Translation Flows: Exploring Networks of People, Processes and Products (Ilse Feinauer, Amanda Marais and Marius Swart, eds.)0
Eugene (Kirby van der Merwe)0
Foundational African Writers: Peter Abrahams, Noni Jabavu, Sibusiso Nyembezi & Es’kia Mphahlele (Bhekizizwe Peterson, Khwezi Mkhize & Makhosazana Xaba, reds.)0
Kolam (Fourie Botha)0
Atrium: Gedigte 1970–2025 (Marlise Joubert)0
Genres of displacement: Rewriting environmental crisis from the African continent / Genres du déplacement : réécrire la crise environnementale depuis le continent africain0
Mobilities and Cosmopolitanisms in African and Afrodiasporic Literatures (Anna-Leena Toivanen)0
The environmental crisis and African women’s displacements in War Girls by Tochi Onyebuchi0
om my kastele in Spanje te sloop (Jaco Barnard-Naudé)0
Stand-up documentary: An emerging narrative device in Yvonne Orji’s comedy0
met die oog op more: ’n versdrama (Antjie Krog)0
Plunder (Antjie Krog)0
an/other pastoral (Tjawangwa Dema)0
Kinderlê (Lynthia Julius)0
Binnerym van bloed (Antjie Krog)0
“Da Art of (Abortion) Storytellin”: Listening for reproductive justice in Black popular music0
Die teks as ’n etiese aanspraak0
Help, help0
Dockside Reading: Hydrocolonialism and the Custom House (Isabel Hofmeyr)0
Ilifa (Athambile Masola)0
’n Huldiging: Antjie Krog: ’n Ondersoekte lewe (Louise Viljoen, red.)0
The language of Black women’s music: MmaAusi’s role in preserving Setswana heritage0
Figures de la subjectivité dans Captive, une autofiction de Nadine Ndjomo0
Nou in infrarooi (Tom Dreyer)0
Performance in propitiatory reconciliation among the Nandi community0
An ecocritical reading of Okot p’Bitek’s “Chameleon and Elephant”0
Die lewe is 'n asem lank: Gedigte oor verlies en vertroosting (Frieda van den Heever, red.)0
Desmond T. Cole (1922–2018)0
Ek't Act (Klara du Plessis)0
African(a) Queer Presence: Ethics and Politics of Negotiation (S.N. Nyeck)0
erf en elders (Kleinboer)0
Kwaaiwater (Irna van Zyl)0
Sanctum (Joan Hambidge)0
The power of exclusion in the works of André Brink and Assia Djebar0
Inkwenkwezi efihlakeleyo (K. Sello Duiker, translated by Xolisa Guzula)0
From rain-bringer to wealth-giver: Changing forms of the snake in southern African belief systems0
Landscape histories: Origin narratives and toponyms in the rural commune of Liboré, Niger0
Convivial Worlds: Writing Relation from Africa (Tina Steiner)0
Innovative register and feminist critique in Mark Behr’s The Smell of Apples0
In praise of Ịjọ folklore: A Sailor’s Son by Christian Otobotekere0
bottelnek breek bek (Dianne Du Toit Albertze)0
In die gees van die Dionisiese: Marlene van Niekerk se aanhangersbrief aan Freddy Mercury0
Masking death: Covid-19 inspired humour in the everyday orality of a Luo community in Kenya0
As die katjiepiering blom (Audrey Jantjies)0
Ons het ver […] versit: Gedigte, toesprake, onderhoude, met ’n essay deur Hein Willemse (Patrick J. Petersen)0
Transitions, transformations, and translocations of African oral literature in the 21st century0
Ons skulde (P. P. Fourie)0
Les traductions des œuvres littéraires de langue française en Afrique du Sud0
’n Interseksionele lesing van Lynthia Julius se Kinderlê0
Die laaste kanariegeel notaboek0
Op pad na Moormansgat (Chris Karsten)0
Geheim van die gruwelsand (Zirk van den Berg)0
Mens en klimaat soos uitgebeeld deur Katherine Graham en Abraham H. de Vries0
Die man wattie kinnes vang (Nathan Trantraal)0
Soekenjin0
Die dood van Rachel April (P. P. Fourie)0
Womanism in Crépuscule du tourment: Mélancolie by Léonora Miano0
Citizenship and social status in Miriam Tlali’s Muriel at Metropolitan0
Étiologie des métamorphoses du vivant: Le sceau prémonitoire des chauves-souris0
Brief op veertigduisend voet (Tom Dreyer)0
Fuelling Bodies: Movement, embodiment, and climate crisis in Wanuri Kahiu’s Pumzi0
Metaphor patterns in Sesotho fiction: The case of the novel Chaka0
Leo.0
Journals editing, editor recognition, and impacting disciplines0
Orisa Sanponna: Indigenous health systems, disability, and morality in Osofisan’s dramaturgy0
Twyfelbos (François Loots)0
Lesser Violence: Volume 1 (Amie Soudien, ed.)0
La République Démocratique du Congo: dramaturgies du conflit (idées et formes)0
Women’s liberation and protest through transnational storytelling0
Autobiographik in Afrika: Literaturgeschichte und Genrevielfalt (Susanne Gehrmann)0
Liminality in Tanzanian Young Adult fiction0
Prins (Ryan Pedro)0
Queer African Cinemas (Lindsey B. Green-Simms)0
Gods, music and rainmaking in Yorùbáland0
Landuit, want jy wil mos (Zirk van den Berg)0
Al wat tel (Irma Venter)0
In die rede geval: Waarom die mens mites maak (Charl-Pierre Naudé)0
Hemel en aarde en ons (Zirk van den Berg)0
Comparative analysis of black queer feminist isiXhosa and English poetry0
’n Feministiese ondersoek na Bettina Wyngaard se misdaadfiksie0
The state of Hausa children’s folktales and play-songs in Gombe, Nigeria0
Sarraounia, love, and the postcolony0
Sirkelgang (Johann Lodewyk Marais)0
’n Onderhoud met Kirby van der Merwe oor Eugene0
Dwelm (Rudie van Rensburg)0
Mirage (David Ralph Viviers)0
Eastern African women writers' 'national epics': A new force in creative fiction?0
Weerskyn (Alwyn Roux)0
Rainbows in Eastern African folktales: Oral narrative as ecocritical model0
Feminismes en Suid-Afrikaanse letterkundes / Feminisms and South African literatures0
Moederland (Madelein Rust)0
Laatnageilande (Marlise Joubert)0
Relations between humans and non-humans in Amazigh North African oral literature0
Die laaste kanariegeel notaboek (Anchien Troskie)0
Preliminary notes on topicality and recent pandemic poetry0
Exploring ecofeminism, ecocriticism, aquapoetics, and environmental humanities in Gabeba Baderoon’s poetry0
Euphrase Kezilahabi (1944-2020)0
My jaar van vrees en vryheid (Marita van der Vyver)0
Re-defining Ghanaian hiplife songs by women as liberatory narratives0
Slow beauty: Refocusing Oliver Hermanus’s Skoonheid through a slow cinema lens0
Afrika-oraliteit by Eugène Marais: die wisselwerking tussen enkele “Sangedigte” en Dwaalstories0
Die afbakening van die kern van die Afrikaanse poësiesisteem (2000–2022)0
Narreskip (Johan Myburgh)0
Die kapokdokter (François Loots)0
Le pasteur, les bovidés et l’environnement dans la tradition orale peule0
Oral performance as substitute for ritual: Ekutet, a Teso exhumation ceremony0
Waterman (Herman Wasserman)0
Diana se dag (Helene de Kock)0
Un futur qui manque: sur quelques pièces de théâtre togolaises0
Petrocapitalism, displacement, and (im)mobilities in Imbolo Mbue’s How Beautiful We Were0
A corpse is also a garden (Pieter Madibuseng Odendaal)0
Réinventer l’avenir global dans Rouge impératrice de Léonora Miano: entre afrofuturisme et écotopie0
“’n Koningin volg hom”: Volkome vrou (1976) as antifeministiese agent0
Orality in Yorùbá films: A study of selected films of Akínwùmí Iṣọ̀lá0
Each Mortal Thing (Michiel Heyns)0
James Stephen Mzilikazi Khumalo (1932–2021)0
Battling statues enter into dialogue at the Gouvernorat du Haut-Katanga0
The impact of women’s singing on political and social mobilization in the Sudanese revolution0
Bonsaimeisies (Erla Diedericks)0
New Afrikaans-language cinemas / Nuwe Afrikaanstalige rolprentrigtings0
Bot (Carien Smith)0
Bloedsomer (Sidney Gilroy)0
Variations in the application of the components of the oral performance to Yoruba chants0
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