Bernard Aresu

Professor
Ph.D., University of Washington

Office: RH 214
Office Hours: Th 3:00-5:00 and by appointment
Phone: 713-348-4857
E-mail: bca@rice.edu

Areas of Research/Interest: Modern/postmodern narratives, the lyrical genre, postcolonial studies, comparative studies

Fall 2009 Courses:

• On Leave
  

Representative Publications

• [In Press] "The Francophone Novel in North Africa," in The Cambridge Companion to the African Novel, Cambridge University Press.
• [In Press] "Albert Camus, Euro-Algerian Writing, and the Aporia of Identity," in Albert Camus Précurseur, Peter Lang.
• "Arcanes algériens entés d'ajours helléniques: Le chien d'Ulysse, de Salim Bachi," in: Echanges et mutations des modèles littéraires entre l'Europe et l'Algérie (Paris: L'Harmattan, 2004).
• Configurations of Memory in Postcolonial Narratives, Guest Editor and Contributor, L'esprit créateur, XLIII, 1 (spring 2003).
• Tahar Ben Jelloun, CELFAN Monographs, Tulane, 1998.
• Counterhegemonic Discourse from the Maghreb: The Poetics of Kateb's Fiction, Gunter Narr Verlag ("études littéraires françaises," no. 53), 1993.
• Kateb Yacine's Nedjma, (trans. Richard Howard) a critical introduction, University Press of Virginia, 1991.
• "Translations of the Orient," Guest Editor and Contributor, Substance 69, December 1992.
• Articles on Baudelaire, Faulkner, Simon, Khatibi, Djebar.

Current Research Projects

• The Self in Dissidence. Mediterranean Fictions. A book in progress, on displacement and transculturalism in art and literature, with special reference to the Franco-Mediterranean sector:
1.  In Praise of Creoleness, I: Théodore Chassériau’s Other Romanticism.
2. Of Signs and Places: Jean Pélégri’s Andalusia.
3. Le premier homme: Reading Albert Camus Genetically.
4. “L’envol des signes:” Khatibi, Atlan, Khadda, and Cherkaoui on Painting.
5. Specular Writing, Tahar Ben Jelloun, and Giacometti.
6. History Revisited: Mimouni, Sansal, Khadra, and Dystopia.
7. In Praise of Creoleness, II: Salim Bachi’s Cycle of Cyrtha.
• Translation of Kateb Yacine's theatre.