Current Writing

1.4k citations
511 papers · indexed · active since 1950
Topics
South African History and CulturePostcolonial and Cultural Literary StudiesAfrican history and culture studies

In The Last Decade

Current Writing

310 papers receiving 865 citations

Peers

Current Writing
Comparison fields: 5 of 86
  • Sociology and Political Science 836
  • Literature and Literary Theory 609
  • Anthropology 279
  • Language and Linguistics 134
  • Education 125
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Fields of papers published in Current Writing

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About Current Writing

The 511 papers published in Current Writing in the last decades have received a total of 1.4k indexed citations . Papers published in Current Writing usually cover Literature and Literary Theory (204 papers), Archeology (14 papers) and Anthropology (99 papers) specifically the topics of South African History and Culture (266 papers), Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (140 papers) and African history and culture studies (77 papers). The most active scholars publishing in Current Writing are Michael Chapman, Duncan Brown, Zoë Wicomb, Leon de Kock, Mike Robinson, Christiane Nord, Liz Gunner, Isabel Hofmeyr, J. M. Coetzee and Pam Nichols.

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