OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Interventions-International Journal of Postcolonial Studies is 1. 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.)

Article	Citations
The Myth of Sufi Sindh: Reflections on the Orientalist and Nationalist Historiography	17
INTRODUCTION: Forms of cultural enclosure	15
Uhyggelig Horror: Narratives of Asylum in Hassan Blasim’s Nordic Stories	9
Refuse/Refuge: Castaways on Islands of Exception	8
Woman, child, and minor forms in contemporary world literature: Lydia Davis and J. M. Coetzee	7
Inhabiting the Hyphen: (Re)Negotiating Arab-American Identity in Poems by Lisa Suhair Majaj, Laila Halaby and Suheir Hammad	5
Loose Canons: The Global Anglophone Novel and the Failures of Universalism	5
Cosmopolitan Repair: Reclaiming and Restoring Cultural Heritage in Postcolonial Nigeria	5
Cultural attachés: African literature, the CIA, and the hermeneutics of suspicion	4
People of the Footprints	4
Brexit as a constitutive force in the Commonwealth: Constitutional identities and the withering Sovereign	4
Partition, diaspora, and translation in rap versions of “Toba Tek Singh”	4
Roman Routes in Italian Postcolonial Women Writers	4
C.L.R. James and the Genealogies of Socially Transformative Aesthetics	4
A Mermaid in a Dry City: A Watery Reading of Yvonne Vera’sButterfly Burning	3
Minor characters, genre, and relationality: Antigone’s sister in contemporary literature	3
Reading the Radio-Magazine: Culture, Decolonization and the Paigc’s Rádio libertação	3
Gramsci’s Writing Body. On Embodiment and Subaltern Knowledge	3
Sri Lankan anglophone poetry and modernist painting	3
On Pluviality: Reading for Rain in Namwali Serpell’s The Old Drift	3
When the People Behind the Scenes Come to the Fore:	3
Anglophone illegibility: the anglophone writer and local literature in 1970s Singapore	2
Negotiating Moral Authority for Body Repatriation: The Case of Senegalese Migration	2
Words on Black Water: Setting South African “Plantation Literature” Afloat on the Kala Pani	2
The Balfour Conversations: British Human Rights Activists and the Call to Reckon with Implication	2

Postcolonial Theory and the Challenge of Caste	2
Voyage Out, Voyage Up?	2
The Notion of the “Subaltern” and the Drone Victim Subjectivities in Pakistani Anglophone Fiction	2
‘Sleep is an Overlord and Sovereign’ The Poetics and Politics of Sleep in Mahmoud Darwish’sIn the Presence of Absence	2
A Map of Divergence and Connection: Voices from Nineteenth-century Nunavut and Aberdeen	2
Against minoritization: five strategies for world literature	2
Introduction: Thanatic Ethics: The Circulation of Bodies in Migratory Spaces	2
Rethinking Indigenous and Collaborative Archaeologies	2
The beautyful and the damned: Ayi Kwei Armah’s postcolony and the still-born humanisms of decolonization	2
Grafting Missionary Infrastructures: Korean Missions to Cambodia in an IT Age	2
The infrastructure humanities	2
Queering Chinese Crossings in Late Twentieth Century Jamaica: Larry Chang and the Gay Freedom Movement	2
The crisis of Bandung’s new human: Senghor reads Mao at the First Congress of Black Writers and Artists (1956)	2
NGOs and Neocolonialism in Postcolonial Literature: The Case of Central Asia	2
Looking into Walcott’s Homer: Omeros between epic and mock-epic	2
Constructing and Consuming the Periphery	2
Supply Chain Capitalism in the Planetary Network Blockbuster	2
Insolence, Indolence, and the Ayitian free Black	2
Parables for planetary crisis: storytelling and multispecies migration in Amitav Ghosh’s Gun Island	2
The Question of Script for Sindhi in India: Reflections on Postcolonial Grammatology	2
Stuplime Orientalism	2
The postcolonial museum and nonsynchronous heritage	1
Hospitality and Amnesty: Aravind Adiga’s Narrative of Legal Liminality	1
White Erethism: Beckett, Crevel, and Negro: An Anthology	1
Introduction the Temporal Politics of Anticolonial Aesthetics	1
Postcolonial Italy , A Public History Project Mapping Colonial Heritage	1
From Treasure To Trash Island Colonialist Fantasies Of Island Wealth Reworked In Satin Island By Tom Mccarthy And Crazy Rich Asians By Kevin Kwan	1
“Does The Water Repeat?”	1
Madhavrao Sapre at the Advent of Writing	1
The rights of whites (in search of a majority)	1
Introduction: Genres, Poetics and Subjectivities of Migration	1
The land and its people: looking at the Andaman Islands through a postcolonial ecocritical lens	1
Performing trauma in the Arabic appropriations of Shakespeare’s Hamlet	1
Intertextuality, World Literature and Migration: Dictionaries and the Female Body in Najat El Hachmi’s L’últim Patriarca and Xiaolu Guo’s A Concise Chines	1
Healing in intercorporeal harmony: decolonial (re-)cognition of Angami Naga shamanic therapeutic traditions in Avinuo Kire's The Last Light of Glory Days	1
TEMPORALITIES. Algerian Revolutions: Whose Star? Then/Now?	1
Imperial Medicine and Proselytization in Robert Kerr’s “Salvific” Activities In Morocco, 1886–1915	1
Constructing a Poetics of Connections: From Network to Relation in Pandemic Poetry Performances from South Africa	1
Contemporary Art’s Thanatic Work	1
Necropolitical Ecologies: Creative Articulations of Nature’s Death-Work in the Borderzone	1
Colonial Czechoslovakia? Overseas and Internal Colonization in the Interwar Czechoslovak Republic	1
Unburials and Skeletal Reconstructions: Narrative as Forensics in Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost	1
Colonial Amnesia and the Material Remains of Italian Colonialism in Mogadishu	1
Intellectual Decolonization and Harmful Nativism: Arabic Knowledge Production of Ancient Egyptian Literature	1
Built to last? Material legacies of Italian colonialism	1
Dark Water: Rustum Kozain’s This Carting Life (2005)	1
Anomalous, Containerized and Inundating Waters: Thinking from the Cape and through Blue Focalization with K. Sello Duiker’sThirteen Cents	1
Evaluating UN peacekeeping deployment problems: the case of the United Nations Emergency Force, 1956–1967	1
Walking with Fanon: Towards Decolonized Embodiments	1
Horizons of liberation: materialism, ecology, and the colonial question	1

Showcasing Italianness through migration governance	1
Recognition beyond recognition!	1
Just Add Global	1
Introduction: Island Narratives of Persistence and Resistance	1
Traces, Absences, and Distortions in Emilie Demant Hatt’s Representations of Sámi Life	1
Queer Performativities in Pakistan	1
Informal Street Vending in Harare	1
The poetic excess of Susana Thénon’s Ova completa	1
Traces of an Arctic Voice: The Portrait of Qalaherriaq	1