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Mercieca, Veronika (2024)

Re-inserting Maltese and Gozitan Women’s Voices into Post-War Maltese-Australian Emigration Narratives: A gendered examination

Master thesis | History (MA)

This thesis explores women's emigration from Malta in the aftermath of the second world war. The work employs an analysis that draws upon a gendered critique which splits the work up into a three-tiered analysis model. Beginning with a historiographical review, the work goes on to include and analyse women's oral histories, as well as the fictional-historical novels of the author Lou Drofenik whose perspective and narratives are informed by the interviews she conducted with first-generation Maltese-Australian female emigrants. In this way, Maltese women's gendered and colonial subjecthood is counter-opposed to their agency in working with and against these historical structures.

postwar-emigration

women's history

history of gender

migration history

Maltese history

oral history

historical fiction analysis

Author

Mercieca, Veronika

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Specialisation

Maritime History

Supervisors

Michiel van Groesen

ECTS Credits

20

Language

en