OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Clcweb-Comparative Literature and Culture 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
Translating Diversity from Ralph Ellison to Kenzaburō Ōe	0
Signs of the Inhuman: Hauntings and Lost Futures in Verónica Gerber Bicecci’s <em>La Compañía</em>	0
Extending the Frontiers of the Detective Novel in Adaora Ulasi’s <em>The Man from Sagamu</em>	0
Returning to East Africa via India: On M. G. Vassanji’s <em>And Home Was Kariakoo</em>	0
Everybody Wants to be a Fascist Online: Psychoanalysis and the Digital Architecture of Fascism	0
Trauma, History, and Terror in the Poetry of Yusef Komunyakaa and Sinan Antoon	0
Prison as a Living Being: ‘Assad’s Syria’ as a model for the Imprisonment State	0
Purloined Significance: How Recidivism Algorithms Capture, Transform, and Automate our Intersubjective Unconscious as Data	0
Punish Yet Cannot Discipline: Two Iraqi Prison Novels	0
Incendiary Devices: Imagining E-Waste Frontiers and Africa’s Digital Futures	0
Pallavi Rastogi, Postcolonial Disasters: <em>Narrating Catastrophe in the Twenty-First Century </em>(2020): Review Essay	0
Looking Back, or Re-visioning: Contemporary American Jewish Poets on “Lot’s Wife”	0
Engaging China: Beckett’s Debt to Pound, Giles, and Laloy	0
The Making of Chinese Meixue	0
Ecopoetry as Method: Reading Gary Snyder as a Cultural Mediator between China and the World	0
Poetics of the Crystal-Image: Dreams in <em>Mirror</em> and <em>Ashes of Time Redux</em>	0
The Networks of Prison Narrative: Imagining Sociality and Making Narrative in Assad’s Syria	0
Out of the Myths of “Revolutionary China”: Liu Kang versus Žižek & Badiou	0
Language and Betrayal: Posthuman Ethics in Kazuo Ishiguro’s <em>Never Let Me Go</em>	0
French Left-wing Literary Theory and Mao Zedong Thought	0
“For the moment, I am not F*cking,” I am Tweeting: Platforms of / as Sexuality	0
The Animal in the Wild in <em>Hwang Sun-mi’s The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly</em>	0
Time Decay: Assets, Authoritarianism, and Anxiety about the Future	0
Children’s Gothic in the Chinese Context: The Untranslatability and Cross-Cultural Readability of a Literary Genre	0
Community Despite Connection: Resisting the Digital Logics of Optimization and Failure	0

Poetic Explorations in Bill F. Ndi’s <em>Worth Their Weight in Thorns</em>: (De)Constructing Hegemonic National Integration and Debating Francophonecentric National Governance.	0
BreadTube Rising: How Modern Creators Use Cultural Formats to Spread Countercultural Ideology	0
The Female Best-Friend Novel: Narration and the Reconsideration of the Political Act	0
Defending “Western” Values: Reactionary Neoliberalism in the Americas	0
A Case of Pandemic Narrative and the End of Post-Cold War	0
Socrates the Degenerate: Irony as Trope of Decadence	0
Where Are the Women?: An Ecofeminist Reading of William Golding’s <em>Lord of the Flies</em>	0
Fredric Jameson and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s <em>Periodizing</em> the Black Internal Colony	0
A Semiotic Paradox: Scientific Language in the Narrative of TV Advertisement-	0
Chinese Modern Leftist Affect and Aesthetic-affective Modernity in the Global Affective Turn	0
Chinese Ideas and American Politics: Confucius as a Guideline for Leadership	0
Precarity in the Times of Partition: Personal vs Communal Love in Khushwant Singh’s <em>Train to Pakistan</em> and Saadat Hasan Manto’s “Gurmukh Singh ki Wasiyat”	0
Khairy Shalaby’s Novel <em>The City of the Enslaved</em>: Egyptian Prison Literature with a Russian Twist	0
Western Theory’s Chinese Transformation: Postscript	0
Translating Literary Ideology from Ancient Chinese into Modern French: François Cheng’s Francophone Poetry in <em>Double chant</em> (2000)	0
Captivity, Resistance and Political Consciousness in Walid Daqqa’s Prison Literature	0
Necropolitics and Visuality: Remembering ‘Speculative Fictions’ in Hong Kong after Rancière and Mbembe	0
The Logic of "Social Enterprise": The Big Issue Organization and New Labour Policy at the Millennial Juncture	0
Topological Tropology of V.S. Naipaul’s Islamic Travelogues and Daniel Pipes’ Islamic History: Ahistorical Historicism	0
Traveling Theory and Discursive Transformation: The Reception of Walter Benjamin and Emmanuel Levinas in China	0
Authoritarianism and Ideology	0
Kazuo Ishiguro and the Service Economy	0
Orature: The Political Interpretation of Performance Framework in <em>Anthills of the Savannah</em> and <em>Half of a Yellow Sun</em>	0
The Malvinas/Falklands War in Transatlantic Narratives: Exploring Collective Memory and Negotiating Self/Other Identity	0
From Prison to the World: A Comparative Reading of Naji’s <em>Hirz Mikamkim</em> (Rotten Evidence, 2020) and Abd el-Fattah’s <em>You Have Not Yet Been Defeated</em> (2021)	0
Conjunctures, Commodities, and Social State Marxism	0
Terrorists, Spies, and Diplomatic Crises: The Birth of Morocco’s Multimedia Prison Literature	0
On Gary Snyder’s Tradaptation of <em>Cold Mountain Poems</em> and its Spiritual Salvation and Literary Enlightenment in Postwar America	0
Reading the Global City: Crisis, Cognitive Mapping and the “Urban Sensorium” in Tom McCarthy’s <em>Satin Island</em> and Ben Lerner’s <em>10:04</em>	0
Confucianism and Folklore in Vietnamese Fantasy Short Stories: <em> The Case of Ghost Stories </em>	0
Introduction: New Faces of Authoritarianism	0
Platform Psychoanalysis: What Does the Algorithm Want?	0
The Extinction Race: Techniques of the Human in Proust, via Houellebecq	0
Bergson on Poetics: Philosophy, Literature and Science	0
Beyond ‘Rising Tides’ and ‘Lying Flat’: Emergent Cultural Practices Among Youth in Urban China	0
Vulgarity as Springboard for High Art—A Comparative Study of Vladimir Nabokov and Qian Zhongshu’s Notions of Vulgarity	0
Precarious Refugee: Self-Optimization and Neoliberal Rationality in Rawi Hage’s <em>Cockroach</em>	0
“China Form” and the Question of the Frankfurt School	0
Resisting Pacification: Locating Tension in G'Ebinyo Ogbowei's Poetry	0
Tituba, “Dark Eve” in the Origins of the American Myth: The Subject of History and Writing about Salem	0
Periodizing the Residuality of a Composite Protest Art Form: The Case of Telangana <em>Dhoom Dham</em>	0
Neo-Authoritarianism and the Contestation of White Identification in the US	0
The Brazilian System of Television, or How to Get a President	0
Beyond Victimhood: Female Agency in Nigerian Civil War Novels	0
Returning to the Past to Rethink Socio-Political Antagonisms: Mapping Today’s Situation in Regards to Popular Insurrections	0
Westernization or Localization? The (Mis)reading of “the Tragic” in Modern Chinese Literary Discourse	0
Exotic Construction of an Ancient Oriental Sappho: On Rexroth’s Creative Translation of Li Ch’ing-Chao’s Ci-Poems and its Influences	0
Two Imagined Chinas in <em>Tel Quel</em>	0
Palestinian Prisoners: Smuggling Freedom, Writing from Captivity	0
Terada Torahiko, a Physicist and a Haikai Poet	0

<em>The Silmarillion</em> by J.R.R. Tolkien and <em>Shahnameh</em> by Firdausi: A Sadraic Interpretation of Free Will and Determinism	0
Periodizing the Present: The 2020s, the <em>Longue Durée</em>, & Contemporary Culture	0
Cooling Down Transmedia Storytelling	0
Prison Sentences: Spaces of Liberation in Arab Prison Writing	0
Review of Emily Sun’s <em>On the Horizon of World Literature</em>	0
“It Is Not All That Bad”—Hitler and Identity-building in <em>Er ist wieder da</em> (Look Who’s Back)	0
Sounding the State of the World: Interview with Karim Rafi, Summer 2021	0
Ethical-Reparative Reconfigurations of the Literary Today	0
“Love Thy Social Media!”: Hysteria and the Interpassive Subject	0
Political Orientation in Ecocriticism: National Allegory in Vietnamese Ecofiction by Trần Duy Phiên	0
Deleuze’s Challenge to Hegel’s Aesthetics—Chinese Aesthetics in the Confrontation between German Classical Aesthetics and Postmodernism	0
Amazon Web Services, the Lacanian Unconscious, and Digital Life	0
#Emotional: Exploitation & Burnout in Creator Culture	0
Coming of Age and Exile in <em>No pasó nada</em>	0
The Absurdity of Liberation in Moroccan Prison Narratives	0
Language, Science and Literature	0
Representation of Terror and Terrorism in Two Arab Films: <em>Paradise Now</em> (2005) by Hany Abu-Assad and <em>Horses of God</em> (2012) by Nabil Ayouch	0
Knowledge Production in the Theory of Literature and Art in Contemporary China: From a Generations Perspective	0
‘Convicted of Patricide?’: Robert Frost’s Nationalism in the Eyes of Contemporary Arab-American Women Writers	0
The Symbolism of Clothing: The Naked Truth About Jacques Lacan	0
“<em>There is no pandemic</em>”: On Memes, Algorithms and other Interpassive Forms of Right-wing Disbelief	0
Biopolitics in the Twenty-first Century: India and the Pandemic	0
Neo-Authoritarianism without Authority	0
Remembering Complicity and Resistance: A Review of Mihaela Mihai’s <em>Political Memory and the Aesthetics of Care: The Art of Complicity and Resistance</em> (2022)	0
Female Bonding and Marginality in Shang Wanyun’s novella “Xialihe” (1978)	0
Exploring the Margins of Kotha Culture : Reconstructing a Courtesan’s life in Neelum Saran Gour’s <em>Requiem in Raga Janki</em>	0
Strange Genre-related Loops in a Novel-Short Story: The Tension between the Genres and their Cultural Context	0
Stalking Oneself: The Fantasmatic Intersubjectivity of Google	0
Storytelling as a Way of Translation: The Rendition of Taoism in Ursula K. Le Guin's <em>The Lathe of Heaven</em>	0
On a Small Glossary of Academic Anti-Intellectualism	0
Identity Reconfigurations, Memory and Personal History in Norman Manea and Saul Bellow’s ‘Spoken Book’	0
The Many Afterlives of Orientalism: Translation, Reception, and Appropriation of Saidian Theory in China	0
Incipient Fascism: Black Radical Perspectives	0
The Turn toward the Nonhuman in Susan Straight’s <em>A Million Nightingales</em>	0
The Social Sinthome	0
Introduction: A Return to the Bad Old Times	0
<em>All Men Are Brothers</em>: Pearl S. Buck’s Translation of <em>Shui Hu Zhuan</em> and its Effects on Her Writing Career	0
“A Sick Eagle” and “I am”: Hymns to Sculpture by Keats and Rilke	0
Lacan and the Algorithm	0
Graphic Nonsense and Historical Trauma in Fred Chao’s <em>Johnny Hiro</em>	0
Playing with Time: Writing History in Neo-Zionist Hebrew Literature	0
Hold Fast the Rope of God: Space, Authority, and Speech in Muslim Prison Narratives	0
Confinement, Care, and Commodification in Mati Diop’s <em>In My Room</em>	0
New Approaches to MENA Prison Literatures After 2011	0
“Passive Revolutions” after the Crisis of Globalization: Gramsci and the Current Culture of Populism	0
Introduction: Western Theory’s Chinese Transformation	0
Translation as Creative Writing: Rewriting <em>The Chinese Maze Murders</em> in Contemporary China	0
A Trumpian Mechanism	0
Literature and Economy in Portuguese-speaking Southern Africa	0