| Text, theory, space: land, literature and history in South Africa and Australia K Darian-Smith, L Gunner, S Nuttall Routledge, 2005 | 239* | 2005 |
| Power, marginality and African oral literature G Furniss Cambridge University Press; Johannesburg: Wits Press, 1995 | 220 | 1995 |
| Politics and performance: theatre, poetry, and song in Southern Africa E Gunner Indiana University Press, 1994 | 159 | 1994 |
| Jacob Zuma, the social body and the unruly power of song L Gunner African affairs 108 (430), 27-48, 2009 | 143 | 2009 |
| Africa and orality L Gunner The Cambridge history of African and Caribbean literature 1, 1-18, 2004 | 123 | 2004 |
| Musho!: Zulu popular praises L Gunner, M Gwala MSU Press, 1991 | 117 | 1991 |
| Radio in Africa: Publics, cultures, communities WJ Tettey, W Mano, T Bosch, SR Davis, S Wolters, SP Lekgoathi, S Straus, ... Wits University Press, 2011 | 108 | 2011 |
| The Man of Heaven and the Beautiful Ones of God: Writings E Gunner Brill, 2002 | 88* | 2002 |
| Wrestling with the present, beckoning to the past: contemporary Zulu radio drama L Gunner Journal of Southern African Studies 26 (2), 223-237, 2000 | 82 | 2000 |
| Songs of Innocence and Experience: Women as Composers and Performers of" Izibongo", Zulu Praise Poetry E Gunner Research in African Literatures 10 (2), 239-267, 1979 | 82 | 1979 |
| Ukubonga Nezibongo: Zulu praising and praises EAW Gunner PQDT-Global, 1984 | 57 | 1984 |
| A dying tradition? African oral literature in a contemporary context E Gunner Social Dynamics 12 (2), 31-38, 1986 | 54 | 1986 |
| Remaking the warrior? The role of orality in the liberation struggle and in post‐apartheid South Africa L Gunner Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa 7 (2), 19-30, 1995 | 51 | 1995 |
| Orality and literacy: dialogue and silence E Gunner Discourse and its Disguises: The Interpretation of African Oral Texts, 49-56, 1989 | 51 | 1989 |
| Song, story and nation: Women as singers and actresses in Zimbabwe MB Chitauro, C Dube, E Gunner | 49 | 1994 |
| Still beating the drum: critical perspectives on Lewis Nkosi L Stiebel, E Gunner Rodopi, 2005 | 45 | 2005 |
| Zulu woman: the life story of Christina Sibiya RH Reyher Feminist Press at CUNY, 1999 | 41 | 1999 |
| Radio soundings: South Africa and the black modern L Gunner Cambridge University Press, 2019 | 39 | 2019 |
| Power house, prison house—an oral genre and its use in Isaiah Shembe's Nazareth Baptist church E Gunner Journal of Southern African Studies 14 (2), 204-227, 1988 | 39 | 1988 |
| Introduction: Yvonne Vera's fictions and the voice of the possible E Gunner, N Ten Kortenaar Research in African literatures 38 (2), 1-8, 2007 | 38 | 2007 |
