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Papers

(The TQCC of Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
“Undoing the Laws of the Universe”: Reading Jeanne-Marie Jackson’s The African Novel of Ideas after #FeesMustFall	9
Gray-Blue Law and Literature	5
Bola Dauda and Toyin Falola, Wole Soyinka: Literature, Activism, and African Transformation. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021, 312 pp.	4
Graham Pechey, In a Province: Studies in the Writing of South Africa. Liverpool University Press, 2022, 256 pp.	4
PLI volume 9 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	3
PLI volume 9 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	3
Resistance Movements:The Tempest,Resurgence, and Indigenous Performance on Turtle Island	3
PLI volume 10 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	3
Reading Postcolonial Animals with the Animist Code: A Critique of “New” Materialist Animal Studies	2
Tanya Agathocleous, Disaffected: Emotion, Sedition, and Colonial Law in the Anglosphere. Cornell University Press, 2021, 211 pp.	2
Decolonizing African and African Diasporan Cultural Memory in Djanet Sears and M. NourbeSe Philip’s Works	2
Before Race, and After Race: A Response to the Forum on The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages	2
Continuous Pasts: A Review	2
Continuous Pasts: Memory, History, Literature	2
Aftermaths Without End	2
The Cultural Underground of Decolonization	2
Akshya Saxena, Vernacular English: Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India. Princeton University Press, 2019, 233 pp.	2
Digital African Literatures and the Coloniality of Data	2
Françoise Lionnet, ed., Selected Poetry and Prose of Évariste Parny, trans. Peter Low and Blake Smith. The Modern Language Association of America, 2018, 336 pp.	2
Freedom Inc.: Gendered Capitalism in New Indian Literature and Culture: A Response	2
The Translational Turn and the Dual Pressures on Chinese Literary Studies	1
Creolization, Hybridity and Archipelagic Thinking: Interrogating Inscriptions of Postcolonial Agency	1
The Invention of Race and the Postcolonial Renaissance	1
African Literatures in the Portuguese Language: Singularities	1
“On Reading Mau Mau”	1

Jinn and Jins: Sensuous Piety as Queer Ethics	1
Within Without: Dreaming New Futures of and for Psychoanalysis	1
Communal Intellection and Individualism in the African Novel	1
Race in the Islamicate Middle East: Reflections after Heng	1
PLI volume 8 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	1
Nation and Sovereignty: A Response to Boyarin	1
Nested Frameworks of Unfreedom in Freedom Inc.	1
The Postcolonial Uncanny in “Toba Tek Singh”	1
Edward Said and Philosophy	1
Violence, Memory, and History: Geoffrey of Monmouth and Kazuo Ishiguro’sThe Buried Giant	1
Bad Subjects of Good Freedoms	1
Cormac McCarthy’s Racial Fictions: Race in Blood Meridian’s Colonial Imagination	0
More of a Question than a Comment: A Response to Modernism, Empire, World Literature, by Joe Cleary	0
All That Is Solid Falls from the Sky: Modernity and the Volume of World Literature	0
Continuous Pasts: Memory as Historicity	0
Encountering Others’ Empathy Toward Oneself in Marlene van Niekerk’sAgaat	0
“Language and the Periphery” Response to Book Forum on Insurgent Imaginations: World Literature and the Periphery	0
Pandemic / Critic	0
The Irreparable Library	0
Requiem for a Dream	0
PLI volume 8 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	0
Difficult Diasporas: The Transnational Feminist Aesthetic of the Black Atlantic By Samantha Pinto New York University Press, 2013, 271 pp.	0
Queens of the Mother City: A Queer Investigation into the Roots of Cape Town’s Royals	0
Comments on “The New Jewish Question”	0
The Stakes of Internationalism	0
Returning the Symptom to Critique: Reading Epidemiologically	0
The Informal Economy in Masande Ntshanga’sThe Reactive	0
Stumbling Upon the Archive	0
Postcolonialism without Colonialism: Vestiges of a Method	0
Sakiru Adebayo’s Continuous Pasts and the Challenge of Postcolonizing Memory Studies: Three Musings	0
Fiction Beyond Words: Music in J. M. Coetzee’s Jesus Novels	0
Naminata Diabate, Naked Agency: Genital Cursing and Biopolitics in Africa. Duke University Press, 2020, 259 pp.	0
Philip Dickinson, Romanticism and Aesthetic Life in Postcolonial Writing. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, 184 pp.	0
Rochona Majumdar, Art Cinema and India’s Forgotten Futures: Film and History in the Postcolony. Columbia University Press, 2021, 320 pp.	0
From the Heart of the Country to the European Core: J. M. Coetzee andlos polacos	0
“Not just for their own use …”: Solidarity in Times of Discord	0
PLI volume 10 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	0
Forum on Joe Cleary’s Modernism, Empire, and World Literature	0
Solidarity and the Medieval Invention of Race	0
Peripheral Convergences	0
PLI volume 10 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	0
PLI volume 10 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	0
Christopher E. W. Ouma, Childhood in Contemporary Diasporic African Literature: Memories and Futures Past Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, 202 pp.	0
J. Daniel Elam, World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth: Anticolonial Aesthetics, Postcolonial Politics. Fordham University Press, 2021, xiv + 192 pp.	0
Affective Disorders: Emotion in Colonial and Postcolonial Literature By Bede Scott Liverpool University Press, 2019, 190 pp.	0
Refugees, Extinction, and the Regulation of Death in Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men	0
James Yékú, Cultural Netizenship: Social Media, Popular Culture, and Performance in Nigeria. Indiana University Press, 2022, 292 pp.	0
Independent Publishing in Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, and Guinea-Bissau	0
Lindsey B. Green-Simms, Queer African Cinemas. Duke University Press, 2022, 250 pp.	0
As If You Were There	0

Stories of the Port: Response to Isabel Hofmeyr, Dockside Reading: Hydrocolonialism and the Custom House	0
Empire, Disease, and the Necessity of Critique	0
Peter J. Kalliney, The Aesthetic Cold War: Decolonization and Global Literature. Princeton University Press, 2022, 336 pp.	0
The Politics of Breastfeeding in Northeast Indian Literature	0
Of Pustules and Peripheries	0
Terrestrial Realism and the Gravity of World Literature: Joe Sacco’s Seismic Lines	0
PLI volume 9 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	0
Mara de Gennaro, Modernism after Postcolonialism: Toward a Nonterritorial Comparative Literature. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020, 229 pp.	0
Places of Body: On Authors, Lives, and Agency	0
Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Postcolonial Bergson. Fordham University Press, 2019, 144 pp.	0
Caribbean Modernism and Cleary’s Modernism, Empire, and World Literature	0
PLI volume 9 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	0
A Voice in the Crowd: The African Novel of Ideas Book Forum Response	0
Bahriye Kemal, Writing Cyprus: Postcolonial and Partitioned Literatures of Place and Space. Routledge, 2020, 312 pp.	0
Modes of Cosmopolitanism in Waguih Ghali’s Egypt in Beer in the Snooker Club	0
PLI volume 10 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	0
The African Novel at the Vanguard	0
Expanding Freedom: A Response	0
Linguistic Hybridization in the Emergence of Creoles	0
Wael B. Hallaq, Reforming Modernity: Ethics and the New Human in the Philosophy of Abdurrahman Taha. Columbia University Press, 2019, 359 pp.	0
Campus Fiction and Critical University Studies from Below: Disgrace, Welcome to Our Hillbrow, and the Postcolonial University at the Millennium	0
“A Refugee from Belief”: Agha Shahid Ali’s Poetics of Rupture	0
Continuous Pasts, Arrested Futures: Memory, Fiction, and the Postcolonial Condition in Africa	0
PLI volume 9 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	0
Enduring Epidemic: Aesthetic Aftershocks of the 1914 Plague and the Segregation of Dakar	0
Edward Said and the Dialectic of the “Imperialized” Intellectual	0
The Creolizing Turn and Its Archipelagic Directions	0
What African Philosophy Can Learn from Jeanne-Marie Jackson’s The African Novel of Ideas	0
What I Have Learned	0
Haddis Alemayehu’s Vision of the Old World: Literary Realism and the Tragedy of History in the Amharic NovelFikir iske Mekabir	0
PLI volume 10 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	0
Minding the Metropolis: Precarity, Urbanity, and Mental Conditions: A Response to Ankhi Mukherjee’s Unseen City: The Psychic Lives of the Urban Poor	0
A Transnational Canon of African Literatures in Portuguese?: Mia Couto, José Eduardo Agualusa and the Circulation of Lusophone African Literature	0
Individual Epistemes in The African Novel of Ideas	0
An Ineffable Haunting: Language, Embodiment, and Ghosts in Toni Morrison’s Beloved	0
The Tongue-Tied Imagination: Decolonising Literary Modernity in Senegal By Tobias Warner Fordham University Press, 2019, 342 pp.	0
Reader Response to Dockside Reading	0
Epidemic Ecstasy	0
The Luso-African Literary World: Introduction	0
The New Jewish Question	0
Primitivism in the Peripheries: Reflections on Auritro Majumder’s Insurgent Imaginations: World Literature and the Periphery	0
Places of Mind: A Response	0
The Invention of Race and the Status of Blackness	0
PLI volume 9 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	0
Communities Are Complicated; Indeed, They May Not Even Be Communal	0
Latinx Internationalism and the French Atlantic: Sandra María Esteves in Art contre/against apartheid and Miguel Algarín in “Tangiers”	0
In Other Theories: Colonial Reason, Language, And Literature in Ankhi Mukherjee’s Unseen City	0
(In)Sights from Àwòrán: Yorùbá Epistemologies and the Limits of Cartesian Vision in Teju Cole’s Open City	0
Brazil—A New Republic of African Letters?	0
The Dream of Psychosocial Thinking	0
Pandemic Metaphors	0
The Eurocentric Constant: An Approach to the Study of Mozambican Literature	0
A Perpetuity of Lesser Emptiness: The Social Space of the Postcolonial Small Town and Vinod Kumar Shukla’s Naukar kī kamīz	0
Mobility as Memory: Refiguring Temporal and Spatial Mobility in Tan Twan Eng’s The Gift of Rain	0
Response to the Responses to Modernism, Empire, World Literature	0
Cold War Decolonization	0
Creolization as Method	0
Academia, Activism, and Popular Consciousness: A Response to Freedom Inc.	0
Jarad Zimbler, ed., The Cambridge Companion to J. M. Coetzee. Cambridge University Press, 2020, 274 pp.	0
Review essay on African Ecomedia and Teaching Postcolonial Environmental Literature	0
Matsotsi: The Migrant Detective and the Postcolonial State	0
Review: Everything Is Sampled - Akin Adeṣọkan, Everything Is Sampled: Digital and Print Mediations in African Arts and Letters. Indiana University Press, 2023, 371 pp.	0
Senegalese New(s) Media: Transpositions and Transformations of the Fait Divers in Aminata Maïga Ka	0
The Historiographies of Premodern Critical Race Studies and Jewish Studies	0
Literary Studies Beyond “The Colonial Book”: A Response to Isabel Hofmeyr’s Dockside Reading: Hydrocolonialism and the Custom House	0
The Cultural Underground of Decolonization – CORRIGENDUM	0
“The Quickening Virtue”: Reiterating the Work of the Literary Text	0
On a Double Decker Omnibus to Golders Green	0