David Attwell

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
37 papers, 522 citations indexed

About

David Attwell is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Literature and Literary Theory and Anthropology. According to data from OpenAlex, David Attwell has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 522 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 14 papers in Literature and Literary Theory and 6 papers in Anthropology. Recurrent topics in David Attwell's work include South African History and Culture (20 papers), Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (8 papers) and African history and culture studies (6 papers). David Attwell is often cited by papers focused on South African History and Culture (20 papers), Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (8 papers) and African history and culture studies (6 papers). David Attwell collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, South Africa and Mexico. David Attwell's co-authors include J. M. Coetzee, Barbara Harlow, Sarah Nuttall and Benjamin Madden and has published in prestigious journals such as Critical Inquiry, Poetics Today and Journal of Southern African Studies.

In The Last Decade

David Attwell

29 papers receiving 315 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Doubling the Point: Essays and Interviews

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
David Attwell United Kingdom	9	391	310	70	59	54	37	522
Njabulo S. Ndebele South Africa	8	268 0.7×	176 0.6×	84 1.2×	48 0.8×	17 0.3×	23	429
André Brink South Africa	10	263 0.7×	163 0.5×	72 1.0×	30 0.5×	14 0.3×	54	394
Dennis Walder United Kingdom	9	190 0.5×	142 0.5×	67 1.0×	27 0.5×	18 0.3×	29	311
Zoë Wicomb United Kingdom	9	314 0.8×	222 0.7×	83 1.2×	25 0.4×	11 0.2×	23	377
Loren Kruger United States	9	197 0.5×	105 0.3×	86 1.2×	13 0.2×	15 0.3×	67	358
Caroline D. Eckhardt South Korea	6	109 0.3×	193 0.6×	44 0.6×	21 0.4×	161 3.0×	27	508
Uma Parameswaran Canada	8	148 0.4×	170 0.5×	78 1.1×	27 0.5×	46 0.9×	31	380
Barend J. Toerien	9	194 0.5×	101 0.3×	33 0.5×	24 0.4×	26 0.5×	71	286
Ursula A. Barnett United States	7	172 0.4×	56 0.2×	41 0.6×	25 0.4×	28 0.5×	15	259
Janelle Reinelt United States	10	113 0.3×	84 0.3×	28 0.4×	26 0.4×	54 1.0×	50	392

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All Works

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Attwell, David. (2024). A Ventriloquial Literature: The Art of “Throwing the Voice” in the South African Canon. English Academy Review. 41(2). 4–18.

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Attwell, David. (2022). “Just What Gods Do You Serve, If Any?”: Wole Soyinka’s Chronicles and the Destruction of Postcolonial Reason. English Academy Review. 39(1). 96–104.

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Attwell, David. (2016). Reading the Coetzee Papers / Mother: Age of Iron. Texas Studies in Literature & Language. 58(4). 374–391. 1 indexed citations

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Attwell, David. (2015). J. M. Coetzee and the Life of Writing: Face-to-face with Time. 35 indexed citations

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Attwell, David. (2014). Writing Revolution: The Manuscript Revisions of J. M. Coetzee'sWaiting for the Barbarians. Life Writing. 11(2). 201–216. 3 indexed citations

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Attwell, David, et al.. (2011). An Interview with J. M. Coetzee. Modernism/modernity. 18(4). 847–853. 1 indexed citations

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Attwell, David. (2008). Coetzee’s Estrangements. NOVEL A Forum on Fiction. 41(2-3). 229–243. 6 indexed citations

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Attwell, David. (2005). TRIBUTE TO NADINE GORDIMER. English Studies in Africa. 48(1). 1–3.

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Attwell, David. (2003). Wole Soyinka's South Africa. English in Africa. 30(2). 31–42. 2 indexed citations

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Attwell, David. (2002). Modernizing Tradition/Traditionalizing Modernity: Reflections on the Dhlomo-Vilakazi Dispute. Research in African Literatures. 33(1). 94–119. 8 indexed citations

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Attwell, David. (2002). Race In Disgrace. Interventions. 4(3). 331–341. 29 indexed citations

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Nuttall, Sarah & David Attwell. (2001). Visual representations of reading in South African painting and photography. Current Writing. 13(2). 80–99. 4 indexed citations

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Attwell, David. (1999). Fugitive pieces: Es'kia Mphahlele'sthe wanderers: A novel of Africa. Current Writing. 11(2). 66–74. 3 indexed citations

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Attwell, David. (1997). Disciplining the past. Scrutiny2. 2(2). 55–60. 1 indexed citations

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Coetzee, J. M., et al.. (1993). Doubling the Point. World Literature Today. 67(2). 433–433. 28 indexed citations

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Attwell, David. (1993). Introduction. Current Writing. 5(2). 1–6. 3 indexed citations

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Attwell, David. (1991). Property, Status, and the Subject in a Middle‐class Tragedy: Arden of Faversham. English Literary Renaissance. 21(3). 328–348. 7 indexed citations

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Attwell, David. (1990). The Problem of History in the Fiction of J. M. Coetzee. Poetics Today. 11(3). 579–579. 16 indexed citations

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Attwell, David. (1987). Mofolo's Chaka and the Bambata rebellion. Research in African Literatures. 18(1). 51–70. 3 indexed citations

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Attwell, David. (1983). The British legacy in anglophone African literary criticism. English in Africa. 11(1). 79–106. 4 indexed citations

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