Ato Quayson

1.6k total citations
52 papers, 512 citations indexed

About

Ato Quayson is a scholar working on Literature and Literary Theory, Anthropology and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Ato Quayson has authored 52 papers receiving a total of 512 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Literature and Literary Theory, 17 papers in Anthropology and 14 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Ato Quayson's work include Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (15 papers), African history and culture studies (11 papers) and South African History and Culture (5 papers). Ato Quayson is often cited by papers focused on Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (15 papers), African history and culture studies (11 papers) and South African History and Culture (5 papers). Ato Quayson collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and United Kingdom. Ato Quayson's co-authors include Willi Goetschel, Aamir R. Mufti, Debjani Ganguly, Anthony Carrigan, Stephen Knight, H. Adlai Murdoch, Mariano Siskind, Gabriella Mazzon, Elizabeth DeLoughrey and Jahan Ramazani and has published in prestigious journals such as Public Culture, African Studies Review and Africa.

In The Last Decade

Ato Quayson

43 papers receiving 332 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ato Quayson Canada 10 221 200 156 55 49 52 512
Manthia Diawara United States 11 328 1.5× 108 0.5× 193 1.2× 54 1.0× 89 1.8× 44 616
Simon During Australia 10 216 1.0× 133 0.7× 52 0.3× 47 0.9× 49 1.0× 46 444
Isidore Okpewho United States 13 218 1.0× 240 1.2× 155 1.0× 51 0.9× 62 1.3× 52 570
Carole Boyce Davies United States 12 330 1.5× 182 0.9× 98 0.6× 37 0.7× 133 2.7× 52 569
Saree Makdisi United States 13 312 1.4× 136 0.7× 85 0.5× 86 1.6× 32 0.7× 30 533
Tom Conley United States 5 226 1.0× 133 0.7× 98 0.6× 67 1.2× 61 1.2× 24 573
Bill Schwarz United Kingdom 11 307 1.4× 104 0.5× 93 0.6× 115 2.1× 69 1.4× 47 536
Steven Salaita Egypt 10 308 1.4× 67 0.3× 64 0.4× 82 1.5× 35 0.7× 31 445
Susan Castillo United Kingdom 4 116 0.5× 57 0.3× 77 0.5× 68 1.2× 65 1.3× 13 310
HM Tiffin 2 184 0.8× 108 0.5× 59 0.4× 63 1.1× 29 0.6× 6 395

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ato Quayson

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ato Quayson

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Quayson, Ato. (2022). Stories and Empathy in a Time of Crisis: An African Viewpoint. African Studies Review. 65(4). 965–984. 1 indexed citations
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Quayson, Ato. (2018). Ghana Studies Since the 1960s. Ghana Studies. 21(1). 69–85. 1 indexed citations
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Quayson, Ato. (2018). Automobility in the social imaginary. Journal of African Cultural Studies. 32(1). 88–93. 3 indexed citations
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Quayson, Ato. (2016). The Cambridge Companion to the Postcolonial Novel. 1 indexed citations
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Quayson, Ato, Debjani Ganguly, Anthony Carrigan, et al.. (2015). The Cambridge Companion to the Postcolonial Novel. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 3 indexed citations
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Quayson, Ato, et al.. (2014). PLI volume 1 issue 2 Cover and Front matter. 1(2). f1–f4. 1 indexed citations
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Quayson, Ato. (2014). Conjunction, Preposition, Supplement, and Trace in Slavery and the Culture of Taste. Research in African Literatures. 45(4). 24–28. 1 indexed citations
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Quayson, Ato. (2014). Oxford Street, Accra.
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Quayson, Ato. (2014). Oxford Street, Accra. 52 indexed citations
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Quayson, Ato. (2012). Periods versus Concepts: Space Making and the Question of Postcolonial Literary History. PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America. 127(2). 342–348. 7 indexed citations
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Quayson, Ato. (2010). Autism, Narrative, and Emotions: On Samuel Beckett's <i>Murphy</i>. University of Toronto Quarterly. 79(2). 838–864. 3 indexed citations
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Quayson, Ato. (2007). Introduction: Area Studies, Diaspora Studies, and Critical Pedagogies. Comparative Studies of South Asia Africa and the Middle East. 27(3). 580–590. 6 indexed citations
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Quayson, Ato. (2005). Incessant Particularities: Calibrations as Close Reading. Research in African Literatures. 36(2). 122–131. 1 indexed citations
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Quayson, Ato. (2005). THE ENCHANTMENT OF A FALSE FREEDOM. Interventions. 7(3). 333–337. 2 indexed citations
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Quayson, Ato. (2005). Incessant Particularities:Calibrationsas Close Reading. Research in African Literatures. 36(2). 122–131. 1 indexed citations
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Quayson, Ato. (2004). Symbolization Compulsion: Testing a Psychoanalytical Category on Postcolonial African Literature. University of Toronto Quarterly. 73(2). 754–772. 5 indexed citations
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Quayson, Ato. (2002). Obverse Denominations: Africa?. Public Culture. 14(3). 585–588. 10 indexed citations
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Quayson, Ato. (1997). Strategic Transformations in Nigerian Writing: Orality and History in the Work of Rev. Samuel Johnson, Amos Tutuola, Wole Soyinka and Ben Okri. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 34 indexed citations
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Quayson, Ato. (1994). Realism, criticism, and the disguises of both: a reading of Chinua Achebe's 'Things fall apart' with an evaluation of the criticism relating to it. Research in African Literatures. 25(4). 117–136. 29 indexed citations

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