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
“L’Individu-oiseau face à la communauté,” Expressions maghrébines (Summer 2006).
“L’facances, that’s how we call them,” Tingis: A Moroccan-American Journal of Ideas and Culture (2006).