Hakim Abderrezak
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Department of French and Italian |
Statement of Interests
Hakim Abderrezak’s fields of interest include Postcolonial, Cultural and Gender Studies. He specializes primarily in Beur and Francophone Literature and Cinema, especially from North Africa. His main research areas center on migration, emigration and immigration, and Arabic linguistic and cultural contexts and subtexts in Beur and Maghrebi literary and cinematographic productions. He presented papers on works by Merzak Allouache, Reinaldo Arenas, Maryse Condé, Gisèle Pineau, Simone Schwartz-Bart, Leïla Sebbar, and on Frenchness and Islam at conferences in the US, France, the Caribbean, England and Spain. He has given invited talks on Morocco, the Beurs and the Maghreb. He was recently invited to deliver a paper at the Modernist Studies Association 8th Annual Conference.
Publications
“Turning Integration Upside Down: How Johnny the Frenchman Became Abdel Bachir the Arab Grocer in Il était une fois dans l’oued (2005),” Screening Immigration and Integration in Contemporary France, University of Nebraska Press. Forthcoming.
“ ‘Burning the Sea’: New Waves of Migration across the Western Mediterranean in Moroccan Francophone Literature,” Contemporary French & Francophone Studies: Sites, 13:4, (September 2009): 461-469
“Speaking of Modernity: A Study of Moroccan and Algerian Literary and Cinematic Texts,” Critical Interventions, 3:4 (Spring 2009): 61-67
“The Modern Harem in Moknèche’s Le Harem de Mme Osmane and Viva Laldjérie,” Journal of North African Studies 12.3 (2007): 347-368. Special issue on North African cinema. Reprinted in North African Cinema in Global Context: Through the Lens of Diaspora, ed. Andrea Khalil (Routledge, 2008).
“Halfaouine, l’enfant des terrasses: L’individu - oiseau face à la communauté,” Expressions maghrébines 5:1 (Summer 2006): 83-96
“L’Facances, ‘that’s how we call them,’” Tingis: A Moroccan-American Magazine of Ideas and Culture, August 2006 (online)