OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
“Undoing the Laws of the Universe”: Reading Jeanne-Marie Jackson’s The African Novel of Ideas after #FeesMustFall	11
Gray-Blue Law and Literature	5
Graham Pechey, In a Province: Studies in the Writing of South Africa. Liverpool University Press, 2022, 256 pp.	4
Bola Dauda and Toyin Falola, Wole Soyinka: Literature, Activism, and African Transformation. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021, 312 pp.	4
PLI volume 10 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	3
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
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
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
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
African Literatures in the Portuguese Language: Singularities	1

Bad Subjects of Good Freedoms	1
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
Violence, Memory, and History: Geoffrey of Monmouth and Kazuo Ishiguro’sThe Buried Giant	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
What African Philosophy Can Learn from Jeanne-Marie Jackson’s The African Novel of Ideas	0
PLI volume 8 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	0
“The Quickening Virtue”: Reiterating the Work of the Literary Text	0
The Historiographies of Premodern Critical Race Studies and Jewish Studies	0
An Ineffable Haunting: Language, Embodiment, and Ghosts in Toni Morrison’s Beloved	0
The Stakes of Internationalism	0
A Transnational Canon of African Literatures in Portuguese?: Mia Couto, José Eduardo Agualusa and the Circulation of Lusophone African Literature	0
The Luso-African Literary World: Introduction	0
Stumbling Upon the Archive	0
“Language and the Periphery” Response to Book Forum on Insurgent Imaginations: World Literature and the Periphery	0
Places of Mind: A Response	0
Fiction Beyond Words: Music in J. M. Coetzee’s Jesus Novels	0
The New Jewish Question	0
Naminata Diabate, Naked Agency: Genital Cursing and Biopolitics in Africa. Duke University Press, 2020, 259 pp.	0
Rochona Majumdar, Art Cinema and India’s Forgotten Futures: Film and History in the Postcolony. Columbia University Press, 2021, 320 pp.	0
PLI volume 9 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	0
Places of Body: On Authors, Lives, and Agency	0
Review essay on African Ecomedia and Teaching Postcolonial Environmental Literature	0
PLI volume 10 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	0
In Other Theories: Colonial Reason, Language, And Literature in Ankhi Mukherjee’s Unseen City	0
Brazil—A New Republic of African Letters?	0
Response to the Responses to Modernism, Empire, World Literature	0
Solidarity and the Medieval Invention of Race	0
The Dream of Psychosocial Thinking	0
PLI volume 10 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	0
A Perpetuity of Lesser Emptiness: The Social Space of the Postcolonial Small Town and Vinod Kumar Shukla’s Naukar kī kamīz	0
Queens of the Mother City: A Queer Investigation into the Roots of Cape Town’s Royals	0
Affective Disorders: Emotion in Colonial and Postcolonial Literature By Bede Scott Liverpool University Press, 2019, 190 pp.	0
Cold War Decolonization	0
James Yékú, Cultural Netizenship: Social Media, Popular Culture, and Performance in Nigeria. Indiana University Press, 2022, 292 pp.	0
Lindsey B. Green-Simms, Queer African Cinemas. Duke University Press, 2022, 250 pp.	0
Academia, Activism, and Popular Consciousness: A Response to Freedom Inc.	0
Stories of the Port: Response to Isabel Hofmeyr, Dockside Reading: Hydrocolonialism and the Custom House	0
Peter J. Kalliney, The Aesthetic Cold War: Decolonization and Global Literature. Princeton University Press, 2022, 336 pp.	0
Forum on Joe Cleary’s Modernism, Empire, and World Literature	0
Of Pustules and Peripheries	0
Christopher E. W. Ouma, Childhood in Contemporary Diasporic African Literature: Memories and Futures Past Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, 202 pp.	0
Literary Studies Beyond “The Colonial Book”: A Response to Isabel Hofmeyr’s Dockside Reading: Hydrocolonialism and the Custom House	0
Communities Are Complicated; Indeed, They May Not Even Be Communal	0

Senegalese New(s) Media: Transpositions and Transformations of the Fait Divers in Aminata Maïga Ka	0
The Irreparable Library	0
Comments on “The New Jewish Question”	0
As If You Were There	0
Difficult Diasporas: The Transnational Feminist Aesthetic of the Black Atlantic By Samantha Pinto New York University Press, 2013, 271 pp.	0
Bahriye Kemal, Writing Cyprus: Postcolonial and Partitioned Literatures of Place and Space. Routledge, 2020, 312 pp.	0
The Politics of Breastfeeding in Northeast Indian Literature	0
Empire, Disease, and the Necessity of Critique	0
Modes of Cosmopolitanism in Waguih Ghali’s Egypt in Beer in the Snooker Club	0
The African Novel at the Vanguard	0
Philip Dickinson, Romanticism and Aesthetic Life in Postcolonial Writing. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, 184 pp.	0
Expanding Freedom: A Response	0
Wael B. Hallaq, Reforming Modernity: Ethics and the New Human in the Philosophy of Abdurrahman Taha. Columbia University Press, 2019, 359 pp.	0
Mara de Gennaro, Modernism after Postcolonialism: Toward a Nonterritorial Comparative Literature. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020, 229 pp.	0
Postcolonialism without Colonialism: Vestiges of a Method	0
Peripheral Convergences	0
Continuous Pasts, Arrested Futures: Memory, Fiction, and the Postcolonial Condition in Africa	0
The Informal Economy in Masande Ntshanga’sThe Reactive	0
Latinx Internationalism and the French Atlantic: Sandra María Esteves in Art contre/against apartheid and Miguel Algarín in “Tangiers”	0
Enduring Epidemic: Aesthetic Aftershocks of the 1914 Plague and the Segregation of Dakar	0
Sakiru Adebayo’s Continuous Pasts and the Challenge of Postcolonizing Memory Studies: Three Musings	0
J. Daniel Elam, World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth: Anticolonial Aesthetics, Postcolonial Politics. Fordham University Press, 2021, xiv + 192 pp.	0
What I Have Learned	0
More of a Question than a Comment: A Response to Modernism, Empire, World Literature, by Joe Cleary	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
“Not just for their own use …”: Solidarity in Times of Discord	0
Individual Epistemes in The African Novel of Ideas	0
The Tongue-Tied Imagination: Decolonising Literary Modernity in Senegal By Tobias Warner Fordham University Press, 2019, 342 pp.	0
Matsotsi: The Migrant Detective and the Postcolonial State	0
Epidemic Ecstasy	0
Edward Said and the Dialectic of the “Imperialized” Intellectual	0
PLI volume 10 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	0
Primitivism in the Peripheries: Reflections on Auritro Majumder’s Insurgent Imaginations: World Literature and the Periphery	0
Haddis Alemayehu’s Vision of the Old World: Literary Realism and the Tragedy of History in the Amharic NovelFikir iske Mekabir	0
Independent Publishing in Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, and Guinea-Bissau	0
The Invention of Race and the Status of Blackness	0
Refugees, Extinction, and the Regulation of Death in Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men	0
Continuous Pasts: Memory as Historicity	0
(In)Sights from Àwòrán: Yorùbá Epistemologies and the Limits of Cartesian Vision in Teju Cole’s Open City	0
Reader Response to Dockside Reading	0
Terrestrial Realism and the Gravity of World Literature: Joe Sacco’s Seismic Lines	0
Pandemic Metaphors	0
Requiem for a Dream	0
The Eurocentric Constant: An Approach to the Study of Mozambican Literature	0
Mobility as Memory: Refiguring Temporal and Spatial Mobility in Tan Twan Eng’s The Gift of Rain	0
PLI volume 9 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	0
Returning the Symptom to Critique: Reading Epidemiologically	0
Campus Fiction and Critical University Studies from Below: Disgrace, Welcome to Our Hillbrow, and the Postcolonial University at the Millennium	0
Creolization as Method	0
Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Postcolonial Bergson. Fordham University Press, 2019, 144 pp.	0
PLI volume 9 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	0
From the Heart of the Country to the European Core: J. M. Coetzee andlos polacos	0
Jarad Zimbler, ed., The Cambridge Companion to J. M. Coetzee. Cambridge University Press, 2020, 274 pp.	0
A Voice in the Crowd: The African Novel of Ideas Book Forum Response	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
PLI volume 10 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	0
On a Double Decker Omnibus to Golders Green	0
The Cultural Underground of Decolonization – CORRIGENDUM	0
Linguistic Hybridization in the Emergence of Creoles	0
The Creolizing Turn and Its Archipelagic Directions	0
Cormac McCarthy’s Racial Fictions: Race in Blood Meridian’s Colonial Imagination	0
“A Refugee from Belief”: Agha Shahid Ali’s Poetics of Rupture	0
All That Is Solid Falls from the Sky: Modernity and the Volume of World Literature	0
Caribbean Modernism and Cleary’s Modernism, Empire, and World Literature	0
Encountering Others’ Empathy Toward Oneself in Marlene van Niekerk’sAgaat	0
PLI volume 9 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	0
Pandemic / Critic	0