Most cited papers in Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
What are the most cited papers in Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies?
The most cited paper in Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies is "Diasporas" (James Lowry Clifford, 1994), with 1,871 citations. Next come "Writing the World from an African Metropolis" (817) and ":Conscripts of Modernity: The Tragedy of Colonial Enlightenment" (805).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 97 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Diasporas James Lowry Clifford · Cultural Anthropology | Aug 1994 | 1,871 |
| 2 | Writing the World from an African Metropolis Achille Mbembé, Sarah Nuttall · Public Culture | Sep 2004 | 817 |
| 3 | :Conscripts of Modernity: The Tragedy of Colonial Enlightenment Rosemarijn Hoefte · The American Historical Review | Dec 2005 | 805 |
| 4 | In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics Lina M. Fruzzetti · The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease | Sep 1988 | 653 |
| 5 | The Class Consciousness of Frequent Travelers: Toward a Critique of Actually Existing Cosmopolitanism Craig Jackson Calhoun · South Atlantic Quarterly | Oct 2002 | 638 |
| 6 | Cultural Trauma: Slavery and the Formation of African American Identity Ron Eyerman | 22 Mar 2004 | 571 |
| 7 | Decoloniality as the Future of Africa Sabelo J. Ndlovu‐Gatsheni · History Compass | Oct 2015 | 553 |
| 8 | Siting Translation: History, Post-Structuralism, and the Colonial Context Tejaswini Niranjana · Digital Commons - Lingnan (Lingnan University) | 1992 | 545 |
| 9 | The politics of literary postcoloniality Aijaz Ahmad · Race & Class | 1995 | 539 |
| 10 | 'Make a Complete Break With the Past.' Memory and Post-Colonial Modernity in Ghanaian Pentecostalist Discourse' Birgit Meyer · Journal of Religion in Africa | 1998 | 501 |
| 11 | Remapping Memory: The Politics of TimeSpace Jonathan Boyarin, Charles Tilly · Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University) | 18 Nov 1994 | 457 |
| 12 | The Politics of Home: Postcolonial Relocations and Twentieth Century Fiction Carol Maloney, Rosemary Marangoly George · MELUS Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States | 1999 | 429 |
| 13 | Subjectivity: Theories of the self from Freud to Haraway Nick Mansfield | Aug 2000 | 412 |
| 14 | Out of the dark night: essays on decolonization Xiaochun Lei · Postcolonial Studies | 16 Mar 2023 | 399 |
| 15 | The Post Colonial Aura: Third World Criticism in the Age of Global Capitalism. Terry McGee · Pacific Affairs | Jun 1998 | 387 |
| 16 | Postcolonial Approaches to Communication: Charting the Terrain, Engaging the Intersections Raka Shome, Radha Sarma Hegde · Communication Theory | Aug 2002 | 387 |
| 17 | Maasai on the Lawn: Tourist Realism in East Africa Edward M. Bruner, Barbara Kirshenblatt‐Gimblett · Cultural Anthropology | Nov 1994 | 312 |
| 18 | “Praise the Lord”: Popular cinema and pentecostalite style in Ghana's new public sphere Birgit Meyer · American Ethnologist | Feb 2004 | 310 |
| 19 | Of Mimicry and Membership: Africans and the "New World Society" JAMES G. FERGUSON · Cultural Anthropology | Nov 2002 | 307 |
| 20 | The cognitive empire, politics of knowledge and African intellectual productions: reflections on struggles for epistemic freedom and resurgence of decolonisation in the twenty-first century Sabelo J. Ndlovu‐Gatsheni · Third World Quarterly | 8 Jul 2020 | 299 |
| 21 | Absolutely Postcolonial: Writing Between the Singular and the Specific Peter Hallward | 2001 | 292 |
| 22 | Postsocialist ≠ postcolonial? On post-Soviet imaginary and global coloniality Madina Tlostanova · Journal of Postcolonial Writing | 20 Mar 2012 | 287 |
| 23 | Postcolonialising Geography: Tactics and Pitfalls Jenny Robinson · Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography | 17 Oct 2003 | 283 |
| 24 | What Is a World? On Postcolonial Literature as World Literature Thomas O. Beebee · Comparative Literature Studies | Mar 2017 | 281 |
| 25 | the madman and the migrant: work and labor in the historical consciousness of a South African people Lenore S. John, Jean Comaroff · American Ethnologist | May 1987 | 272 |
| 26 | Postcolonial Theory and the United States: Race, Ethnicity, and Literature Tej N. Dhar, Amritjit Singh, Peter A. Schmidt · MELUS Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States | 2003 | 263 |
| 27 | Postcolonial geographies: an exploratory essay James D. Sidaway · Progress in Human Geography | Dec 2000 | 256 |
| 28 | Mediating the Global and Local in Nigerian Pentecostalism Ruth Marshall-Fratani · Journal of Religion in Africa | 1998 | 255 |
| 29 | Twentieth-Century Caribbean Literature: Critical Moments in Anglophone Literary History Alison J. Donnell | 24 Nov 2005 | 232 |
| 30 | Explorations in Animist Materialism: Notes on Reading/Writing African Literature, Culture, and Society Harry Garuba · Public Culture | May 2003 | 224 |
| 31 | Greece and Mesopotamia: Dialogues in Literature Johannes Haubold | 27 Jun 2013 | 222 |
| 32 | Black art and the burden of representation Kobena Mercer · Third Text | Mar 1990 | 208 |
| 33 | The National Longing for Form Timothy A Brennan · Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks | 1989 | 205 |
| 34 | Colonial and Postcolonial Discourse: Cultural Critique or Academic Colonialism? Walter D. Mignolo · Latin American Research Review | 1993 | 203 |
| 35 | Introduction: Class, Culture and Identity Stephanie Lawler · Sociology | 14 Nov 2005 | 198 |
| 36 | The diasporic imaginary: Theorizing the Indian diaspora∗ Vijay C. Mishra · Textual Practice | Dec 1996 | 198 |
| 37 | Diasporas old and new: Women in the transnational world Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak · Textual Practice | Jun 1996 | 197 |
| 38 | “What Colour Is Your English?”* Gillian Creese, Edith Ngene Kambere · Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie | Dec 2003 | 195 |
| 39 | Postmodernism or post‐colonialism today Simon During · Textual Practice | Mar 1987 | 192 |
| 40 | Charting the journey: Writings by black and third world women Caroline Ramazanoğlu · Women s Studies International Forum | 1989 | 187 |
| 41 | Unsettling the Empire: Resistance theory for the second world Stephen Slemon · World Literature Written in English | 1990 | 185 |
| 42 | What is post(‐)colonialism? Vijay C. Mishra, Bob Hodge · Textual Practice | Dec 1991 | 181 |
| 43 | Charismatic/Pentecostal Appropriation of Media Technologies in Nigeria and Ghana Rosalind I. J. Hackett · Journal of Religion in Africa | 1998 | 178 |
| 44 | Discourse analysis as a research method in library and information science Bernd Frohmann · Library & Information Science Research | Mar 1994 | 176 |
| 45 | Journal of Postcolonial Writing Laetitia Zecchini · Journal of Postcolonial Writing | 23 Oct 2012 | 172 |
| 46 | Cultural studies and/in new worlds1 Lawrence Grossberg · Critical Studies in Mass Communication | Mar 1993 | 168 |
| 47 | Pirate Towns: Reworking Social and Symbolic Infrastructures in Johannesburg and Douala AbdouMaliq Simone · Urban Studies | 31 Jan 2006 | 167 |
| 48 | Writing as a problem: African grassroots writing, economies of literacy, and globalization Jan Blommaert · Language in Society | Nov 2004 | 165 |
| 49 | Geography's literature Marc Brosseau · Progress in Human Geography | Sep 1994 | 153 |
| 50 | On the Edge of Reason: Planning and Urban Futures in Africa Philip Harrison · Urban Studies | 31 Jan 2006 | 152 |
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