OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Postcolonial Writing 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The colonial remains of Brexit: Empire nostalgia and narcissistic nationalism	19
Planetary precarity and feminist environmental art practices in Antarctica	14
Planetary precarity and the pandemic	6
Claims of memory: Transgenerational traumas, fluid identities, and resistance in Hala Alyan’sSalt Houses	6
The Brexit within: Mapping the rural and the urban in contemporary British fiction	5
Nostalgia, identity, and homeland: Reading the narratives of the diaspora in Susan Abulhawa’s fiction	5
When Caliban writes back: Alameddine’s appropriation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest	4
“Eastern Europeans” and BrexLit	4
Precarity and the stories we tell: Post-truth discourse and Indigenous epistemologies in Thomas King’s The Back of the Turtle	4
Ain’t no black in the (Brexit) Union Jack? Race and empire in the era of Brexit and the Windrush scandal	4
On writing transnational migration in On Black Sisters’ Street (2009) and Better Never Than Late (2019): An interview with Chika Unigwe	4
Liminal diasporas in the era of COVID-19	3
Living in dystopia: Fractured identities and COVID-19	3
Reclaiming Arab queerness, debunking white saviors: This Arab is queer, an anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab writers	3
Warning signs: Postcolonial writing and the apprehension of Brexit	3
“The Arab Room”: Detention, disorientation, and displacement in Palestinian airport narratives	3
Necropolitics in a post-apocalyptic zombie diaspora: The case of AMC’s The Walking Dead	3
We should all be radical feminists: A review of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s contribution to literature and feminism	3
Imagining the European periphery: Post-war Croatia in Aminatta Forna’sThe Hired Man	3
The experience of homecoming in Teju Cole’s Every Day Is for the Thief: An investigation into the othered “cosmopolitan stranger”	2
Traveller in one’s own land: Reverse movements in migritude literature	2
Thinking the delirious pandemic governance by numbers with Samit Basu’sChosen Spiritsand Prayaag Akbar’sLeila	2
“We are all migrants through time”: History and geography in Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West	2
Madness and psychiatry in K. Sello Duiker’s The Quiet Violence of Dreams	2
Neutralizing English: Han Suyin and the language politics of Third World literature	2

Diffractive spaces: An analysis of Malaysian cyberpunk	2
Precarity, poverty porn and vernacular cosmopolitanism in NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names and Meg Vandermerwe’s Zebra Crossing	2
Neoliberal extraction and aquatic resistance in Helon Habila’sOil on Water	2
Mohammed Hanif’sRed Birds: “Anti-colonial textuality” and beyond	2
“I feel I am a man and a free man too”: Palawa voices and the ethics of representation in contemporary Tasmanian fiction	2
Infection rebellion in Bina Shah’s Before She Sleeps	2
Picturing precarity: Diasporic belonging and camp life in Leila Abdelrazaq’s Baddawi	2
“Leave to quit boundaries”: Danger, precarity, and queer diasporas in the South Asian Caribbean	2
Clandestine crossings: Narrating Zimbabwe’s precarious diaspora in South Africa in Sue Nyathi’sThe Gold-Diggers(2018)	2
Storying ourselves: Black Consciousness thought and adolescent agency in 21st-century Africa	2
Askari, colonial encounters, and postcolonial war commemoration inAfterlivesby Abdulrazak Gurnah	1
Dalit Lekhika: Women’s writings from Bengal	1
Robinson Crusoe in the Pacific: REFUGIO by Roger Palmer and the Marxian theory of economic character masks	1
Michael Ondaatje’sRunning in the Familyand the “familia-graphic” gaze	1
Stories as “med-sins”: Lee Maracle’s Ravensong and Celia’s Song	1
Place and the postcolonial poetry of Nigeria	1
On the periphery: Contemporary exile fiction and Hungary	1
City, narratives, and nation: The representation of Karachi in H.M. Naqvi’s The Selected Works of Abdullah the Cossack	1
“Making up stories is an inherently political act”: Mohsin Hamid in conversation	1
Writing back to Brexit: Refugees, transcultural intertextuality, and the colonial archive	1
Wong Phui Nam: Passing of a postcolonial literary pioneer	1
Dancing with the nation: courtesans in Bombay cinema	1
A sun in ambush, 2021: Reading Han Suyin today	1
Greening White	1
China, Malaysia, and millennial diasporic identity in Tash Aw’s The Face and Five Star Billionaire	1
Monsters within Hong Kong’s “cesspool of iniquity”: Kowloon Walled City and Temutma (1998)	1
From Oodgeroo Noonuccal to Alexis Wright: Postcolonial reading of Australian Indigenous literature in China, 1988–2018	1
Robinson Crusoe : After the island	1
Object as subject: Material agency in Ismat Chughtai’s “The Quilt” and “Chhoti Apa”	1
Why Australia? Inquiries and possibilities in the United States	1
A poetics of parallax: The significant geographies of Derek Walcott’s Omeros (1990)	1
Fragmentations, phantom limbs, re-memberings: Negotiating bodies, representation, and subjectivity in Caribbean British writing	1
(Post)colonial friendships and Empire 2.0: A Brexit reading of Victoria & Abdul	1
Narrating global asymmetries of power: Children’s play/games and photography in NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names	1
Narrating horrific refugee experiences in Hassan Blasim’s short fiction	1
Han Suyin’s Cold War fictions: Life-writing, intimacy, and decolonization	1
Gender submerging the caste–class question? Revisiting Jyotirmoyee Devi’s The River Churning	1
Imperial pasts, dystopian futures, and the theatre of Brexit	1
Entangled peripheries: Spatial agency in Jackie Kay’sTrumpetand Caryl Phillips’sThe Lost Child	1
“That hateful limit”: Narrative distancing and Palestinian subjectivity in the post-sumudfiction of Adania Shibli	1
On not writing back: Cosmopolitan paradoxes in new diasporic Malaysian writing today	1
Deliberative agency: A study in modern African political philosophy Deliberative agency: A study in modern African political philosophy , by Uchenna Okeja, Indiana, Indi	1
Teaching Australia and Japan through Richard Flanagan’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North	1
“The reign of error”: Tropes of exception in Shashi Tharoor’s The Great Indian Novel	1
“I believe there are as many motherhoods as there are mothers”: In conversation with Jerry Pinto	1
Caryl Phillips’s The Lost Child (2015): Re-imagining Emily Brontë’s “unquiet slumbers”	1
Universalism and the Malaysian anglophone novel: Exploring inequality, migrancy, and class in Tash Aw’s We, the Survivors	1
Beyond the “‘recruitable’ narrative”? The fictive portrayal of Pakistani Christians in Nadeem Aslam’s The Golden Legend	1
“Kin-fused” revenge: Rewriting the canon and settler belonging in Leah Purcell’sThe Drover’s Wife	1
Panchayat and colonialism in Humayun Kabir’s Men and Rivers	1

Can the subaltern sing? Analogy, alienation and discursive precarity in Derek Walcott’sOmeros	1
Challenging ecoprecarity in Paolo Bacigalupi’s Ship Breaker trilogy	1
The ritual in the roadblock film: The wedding and the birthday in post-Oslo Palestinian Cinema	1
Challenges and possibilities in the translation of Dalit literature: An interview with Susheela Punitha	1
“Griffus ou non griffus”: Naming, baptism, and global racialized capitalism in Césaire’s La tragédie du roi Christophe	1
Han Suyin’s translation philosophies in the context of Mainland China since the 1950s	1
Brexit literature’s present absentees: Triangulating Brexit, anti-Semitism, and the Palestinian crisis	1
Transnational re-memorialization in Preeta Samarasan’s Evening Is the Whole Day	1
“Do not shoot, I’m a B–b–British object!”: Reading David Malouf in Indian universities	1
Decolonizing the museum: Leila Aboulela’s “The Museum”	1
The new age of empire: How racism and colonialism still rule the world The new age of empire: How racism and colonialism still rule the world , by Kehinde Andrews, Londo	1
Jeanine Leane’s counter-reading of Australian historical and cultural memory locally and internationally	1
Writing an(Other) Europe: Challenging peripheries in Chika Unigwe’s fiction on Belgium	1
The fragility of a more-than-human world: Ecological awareness in the poetry of Robert Bringhurst	1
“The right to narrate”: Gazans contest popular geopolitics with film	1
Australian literature and its institutionalization in the offshore playground	1
The ruins of referentiality: Allegorical realism and traumatic fragments in Scorpion Orchid and The Search	1
“Space Probe”: Science fiction across the Black Atlantic. The speculative geographies of Amiri Baraka and Emmanuel Dongala	1
“A dangerous tool in the wrong hands”: Sovereign technologies in Alanis Obomsawin’s Is the Crown at War with Us? and Barry Barclay’s The Kaipara Affair	1
The postcolonial millennium: New directions in Malaysian literature in English	1
Inventing reality: Obstinate Orientalism in Victor Segalen’s René Leys	1
Czech translations and receptions of contemporary Australian fiction	1
Rewilding the world in the postcolonial age: On the nexus between cultural production and species politics	1
Interracial relations and the post-postcolonial future in Zen Cho’s Spirits Abroad	1
Distinguished and other voices	1
Through an observer’s eyes: A conversation with author Siddhartha Gigoo	1
“You know that I’m different from them”: Performing national identity in Abdulaziz Al-Mahmoud’s The Corsair	1
The anti-Antigone: Pākehā settler masculinity, racialized kinship, and contested paternity in Carl Nixon’s Settlers’ Creek	1
“Home is a place in time”: Fractals and chronotopes in the poetry of Safia Elhillo	1
Writing against colonialism in South African memoir	1