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...Show moreThis 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.Show less
