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Title: | Post-independence Maltese poetry - an overview |
Authors: | Micallef, Bernard |
Keywords: | Maltese literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism Malta -- History -- 1964- Independence Day, 1964 Grech Ganado, Maria, 1943- -- Criticism and interpretation Grima, Adrian, 1968- -- Criticism and interpretation Mifsud, Immanuel, 1967- -- Criticism and interpretation Modernism (Literature) -- Malta Poets, Maltese -- 20th century Maltese poetry -- 20th century |
Issue Date: | 2007 |
Publisher: | The Drunken Boat |
Citation: | Micallef, B. (2007). Post-independence Maltese poetry - an overview. The Drunken Boat, 7(3-4), Retrieved from https://www.drunkenboat.com/ |
Abstract: | To a large extent, the history of Maltese post-independence poetry is also the history of the poet's conversion from a patriotic to a linguistic, or purely artistic, hero. This runs parallel to a shift in the concept of independence: instead of the supposed conservative virtues of romantic self-perpetuation, independence now comes to connote an increasingly versatile poetry, assimilative of alien cultures through its enhancement of associative and reformulatory techniques. After Malta's political independence of 1964, Maltese literature is no longer ideologically guided by the romantic ideal of national self-sufficiency so often pitted against foreign rule. For one thing, there no longer existed a foreign power to blame for unrealized national hopes and ideals. [excerpt] |
Description: | Excerpts from the article, "la poésie maltaise postérieure à l'indépendance," published in French in Le Jardin d'Essai (Paris, Number 21/22, Printemps 2001, Numéro spécial: Écritures Maltaises Contemporaines) |
URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/114401 |
ISSN: | 15307646 |
Appears in Collections: | Scholarly Works - FacArtMal |
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