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MALTESE LITERATURE AND NATIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS DURING BRITISH COLONIAL RULE, 1800-1964
In: Canadian review of studies in nationalism: Revue canadienne des études sur le nationalisme, Band 17, Heft 1-2, S. 205-217
ISSN: 0317-7904
THE MALTESE LITERARY EXPERIENCE WAS A COHERENT SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS MOVEMENT THAT IMPELLED THE MALTESE TO AFFIRM THEIR IDENTITY AND TO SEEK THE NECESSARY MEANS TO ACHIEVE CONSTITUTIONAL EMANCIPATION. LITERATURE ALSO SERVED AS A STRATEGIC OPPOSITIONAL INSTRUMENT AGAINST THE COLONIAL GOVERNMENT AND PRESENTED AN ALTERNATIVE WAY OF THINKING FOR A PEOPLE LANGUISHING UNDER FOREIGN RULE.