OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Literary Studies 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Post-Apartheid Same-Sex Sexualities: Restless Identities in Literary and Visual Culture, by Andy Carolin	13
Unveiling Neocolonialism in Sino-African Relations	8
The Witness of Poetry: Holocaust Representation in Abraham Sutzkever and David Fram	4
Wagar and Motley “Archaic” Vestiges: A Postmodernist Reading of Contemporary Somali Fiction	3
Media, Minority Discourses and Identity Politics in Post-Genocide Rwanda	3
The (De)Colonial Praxis: Confronting Present-Day Dilemmas of Transforming Knowledges and Societies in Kopano Matlwa’s Spilt Milk	3
The Rhetoric of Shimon Wincelberg’s Resort ‘76 and the Aesthetics of Atrocity in Drama of the Holocaust	2
LGBTQ+ Literature in the West: From Ancient Times to the Twenty-First Century, by Robert C. Evans	2
The Power of a Brand: Paramount, Heartland Narrowcasting, and Taylor Sheridan’s Yellowstone	1
A Zulu king in conversation with the world: Translational and transcultural strategies in Chaka (1981) by Thomas Mofolo	1
Literary Gerontology Comes of Age: A Poetic Language of Ageing (2023), edited by Olga V. Lehmann and Oddgeir Synnes	1
Dystopian Futures and Posthuman Realities	1
From Connemara to Gukurahundi Genocide of the 1980s in Zimbabwe	1
Monstrous Bodies as Cultural Text	1
Power and the Prison: A Foucauldian Perspective on Herman Charles Bosman’s Cold Stone Jug and Willemsdorp	1
Refiguring in Black, by Tendayi Sithole	1
Post-Apartheid Haptic	1
Tropes Have Fangs: Elsa Dutton, 1883, “Going Native”, Adaptive Whiteness and Trope Resilience	0
Corruption in Contemporary Nigerian Poetry: A New Historicist Perspective	0
Call for Papers	0
Eliot and Beckett’s Low Modernism: Humility and Humiliation, by Rick de Villiers	0
Imagined Identity and Human Rights in the Post-pandemic World of Lauren Beukes’s Afterland	0
The Typewriter’s Tale: Re-Exploring the Historical Figure of Henry James through Fiction	0
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Maternal Ambivalence in Avni Doshi’s Burnt Sugar	0
“A New Race of Immortals”: A Posthumanist Reading of “Poe Posthumous; or, the Light-House”	0

Being Human in a Time of Catastrophe: African Feminism, Feminist Humaneness, and the Poetry of Joyce Ash	0
Intermedial Reflections on Analogue Photography and Digital Visuality in Moxyland	0
On the Way to Language: Reading Celan Philologically	0
Literêr-teoretiese benaderings tot literatuurstudie in die tagtiger- en negentigerjare	0
Reconsidering Literatures: Directions in South African Literary Studies	0
“I Felt Misunderstood by the World”: The Interplay of Fame, Adversity, and Identity in Bonnie (Mbuli) Henna’s Autobiography Eyebags & Dimples	0
Redaksionele nota	0
Dining with the Duttons	0
Culpability and Nature-Nature Infractions in Select Poems in Tanure Ojaide’s Narrow Escapes: A Poetic Diary of the Coronavirus Pandemic	0
Apartheid’s Patriarchies in Decline: White Masculinities in Damon Galgut’s The Promise	0
Gukurahundi, Media and the “Wounds of History”: Discourses on Mass Graves, Exhumations and Reburials in Post- Independent Zimbabwe	0
The Multispecies City in McCarthy’s Suttree and Duiker’s Thirteen Cents	0
Intensification of Biopolitical Strategies: Governing Bodies’ Treatment of Apocalyptic Zombification in Max Brook’s World War Z	0
Contributors	0
Female Sexualities under a Patriarchal Microscope: An Interrogation of Buchi Emecheta’s Double Yoke	0
Women Navigating the Climate Catastrophe: Challenging Anthropocentrism in Selected Fiction	0
Writing a South African Pandemic Moment: Inequality and Violence in The Lockdown Collection	0
Gender Mainstreaming in Peacebuilding and Localised Human Security in the Context of the Darfur Genocide: An Africentric Rhetorical Analysis	0
Robotic Narrative, Mindreading and Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun	0
The Biopolitics of Disability	0
Banville’s Anti-Ageing Narrative in The Sea and Ancient Light	0
Food, Masculinity and Gender-based Violence in Sally Andrew’s Recipes for Love and Murder (2015)	0
Unveiling Gender Dynamics	0
Problems in Philosophy of Literature	0
Intermedialising Modernities	0
Redaksionele nota	0
Stiltes en stemme. ’n Huldiging van Karel Schoeman, deur Willie Burger (redakteur)	0
Doing Literature Now	0
Anxious Competition: Exploring the Poetic Imaginarium of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Malawi	0
Fertile Ground	0
Colonial Conflict and Cultural Symbolism in Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s The River Between	0
Contagion, a Futurist South African Climate Crisis and a Hidden Drug Pandemic in Mohale Mashigo’s Intruders: Short Stories	0
Negotiations of Anxiety in the Discourses of Melanie Klein and Edgar Allan Poe	0
Manga: A Critical Guide by Shige (CJ) Suzuki and Ronald Stewart	0
Genocidal Action and Framing in Vera's The Stone Virgins	0
Poetics of the Medial State of Emily Dickinson’s Persona	0
The Art of Astonishment: Reflections on Gifts and Grace, by Alice Brittan	0
Into our Labours: Work and its Representation in World-Literary Perspective, by Neil Lazarus	0
Die tempteerbare oog: Opstelle oor die werk van Marlene van Niekerk, deur Marius Crous (redakteur)	0
Twitter Diary and COVID-19 Survival: The Case of @acielumumba	0
Writing the Elusive Narrative of Soweto-Based Community Theatre, 1984–1994	0
Veelkantige perspektief op die werk van ’n formidabele digter	0
Editorial Note	0
Motherhood and Memory in Najwa Bin Shatwan’s The Slave Yards	0
Unveiling Jane Eyre: Space Escape and the Construction of Subjectivity through a Foucauldian Lens	0
The Role of Prostitutes in the Political Economy of Corruption in Ben Mtobwa’sPesa Zako ZinanukaandDares Salaam Usiku	0
Trauma and the Dialectics of Recuperation in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s By the Sea	0
Representations and Rhetoric of Genocide in African Popular Cultures	0
Defying Stereotyping Hutu People in The Rwandan Genocide in The Film, Kinyarwanda (2012)	0
Decolonising Adamastor: From The Lusiads to Thirteen Cents	0

London and the Spectre of Anarchy: Chesterton’s The Man Who Was Thursday as Urban History	0
Mapping Abjection: Dissecting Racial and Sexual Boundaries in Mark Gevisser’s Lost and Found in Johannesburg	0
My Silver Stripes and Other Poems, by Maletšema Ruth Emsley	0
Solipsistic breakthroughs or stymying collectives? Historical duels in August Wilson’s Radio Golf.	0
Pandemic Literatures and Being Human in Times of Mass Infection and Catastrophe: Some African Perspectives	0
Ambiguous Women	0
Life Writing During a Pandemic: Making Sense of the “New Normal” in Lockdown Extended: Corona Chronicles (2020)	0
Gukurahundi in Zimbabwe: An Epistemicide and Genocide	0
Complicity and Responsibility in Contemporary African Writing: The Postcolony Revisited by Minna Johanna Niemi	0
Redaksionele nota	0
Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory: An Overview, by Jeffrey Di Leo	0
Rethinking the Concept of Double Consciousness in Du Bois’ The Souls of Black Folks (1903)	0
The Emotional Well-being of African Wives: Perceiving the Generalised Resistance Resources (GRRs) in Stress Management by Co-wives in Lola Shoneyin’s Novel The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives	0
n Voelvlug oor die ontwikkeling en die gebruik van Kaapse Afrikaans (Kaaps) in Afrikaanse dramas	0
Literature and the Battle against Covid-19 in Zimbabwe: A Study of Flight Mlambo’s Digital Verse	0
The Construction of Identities	0
Displacement in When Rain Clouds Gather	0
Agitations for Self-Identification and (Re)presentation in Selected Tshivenda Poetry	0
Subversive Verses: How Ndebele Musicians Counter-Framed the State Propaganda on The Gukurahundi Genocide	0
Editorial Note	0
Contributors	0
The Gender Performances of Margaret Atwood’s Aunt Lydia in "The Testaments"	0
Dystopian Futures: Ugandan Science Fiction and Post-Apocalypse Contagions	0
“There Is No Heaven to Go to, Because We’re in It Already. We’re in Hell, Too. They Coexist”	0
“Race”, Language and Xenophobia in Joseph Conrad’s “Amy Foster”	0
A Weberian Reading of Henry James’s The Ambassadors	0
The Marriage Debate, Mona Caird and Her Feminist Radicalism	0
Enjoying the Symptom: David Foster Wallace’s Brief Interviews with Hideous Men	0
Editorial Note	0
“Their Skin Is Black”	0
The Language of the Gukurahundi Genocide in Zimbabwe: 1980-1987	0
The Anticipation of #MeToo in J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace	0
Contributors	0
Situated Readings	0
Contemporaneity, Religious Instruction and Music in Dryden’s “A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day” and C.S. Lewis’The Chronicles of Narnia*	0
Post-Apartheid IsiXhosa Written Poetry’s Commentary on the Neoliberal Policies of the Democratic South Africa	0
Ecocritical Concerns in Select Afrikaans Narrative Works: Critical Perspectives	0
The Poetics of Toxic Love	0
Re-reading Matsemela Manaka’s eGoli, Domba, and Goree	0
Norman Ajari Book Review	0
Evolution of Memory Writing in Samuel Beckett’s Stage Plays	0
Reflections of Tartarin of Tarascon in Araba Sevdası in the Context of Impressionism	0
The Bloomsbury Handbook to Sylvia Plath, edited by Anita Helle, Amanda Golden, and Maeve O’Brien	0
Blackface on the South African Stage	0
Ahistorical Rhetoric: Oil, Ethnicity and Genocide in South Sudan	0
Self-Defence and Battered Woman Syndrome in a Selected isiXhosa Short Story	0