North African representations of Saint Augustine of Hippo as forms of late antique and postcolonial knowledge production

计划中的跨学科研究项目将从古典文字学以及文化理论和现代文学批评的角度，集中在Possidius（公元431年）经常被低估的晚期古董《维塔·奥古斯丁》（Vita Augustini）和马格里布地区目前与奥古斯丁有关的文学作品上。从他们各自在每个时代的文化话语中的角色问题开始，我们将研究这些代表在古北非晚期和马格里布当代社会中的特殊功能。该项目的目的，在其第一阶段，进行语料库的语言学分析。第二阶段将涉及对北非接受奥古斯丁的话语策略的深入研究，试图了解其对各自作者当前环境的历史和文化影响。该项目将作为对北非接受古典文化的广泛而系统的调查的起点，包括三本专著（见第1-3节）。两位申请人都发表了关于罗马文学和北非文学和欧洲电影中古典文化接受的初步研究（Bettenworth 2009），马格里布文学，以及后殖民自传，史学和性别批评（Gronemann 2000-2013）。

The planned interdisciplinary research project will focus, from a classical philological as well as a cultural theory and modern literary criticism perspective, on the often underestimated late antique Vita Augustini by Possidius (431 A.D.) and on current literary production in the Maghreb dealing with Augustine. Starting from the question of their respective roles in the cultural discourse of each epoch, we will study the special function of these representations in late antique North Africa and in contemporary societies of the Maghreb. The project aims, in its first stage, to conduct a philological analysis of the corpus. A second stage will involve an in-depth study of the discursive strategies of the North African reception of Augustine in an attempt to understand its historical and cultural impact on the respective authors present environment. The project will serve as the starting point for an extensive and systematic investigation of the North African reception of classical culture encompassing three monographs (see sections 1-3). Both applicants have published preliminary studies on Roman literature and the reception of classical culture in North African literature and European cinema (Bettenworth 2009), on Maghrebian literature, as well as on postcolonial autobiography, historiography and gender criticism (Gronemann 2000-2013).