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dc.contributor.author | Grima, Adrian | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-02-12T09:09:26Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2020-02-12T09:09:26Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 1999-08 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Grima, A. (1999). A village for an island : Malta in Frans Sammut's novel Samuraj. Humanitas: Journal of the Faculty of Arts, 1, 65-78. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/51366 | - |
dc.description.abstract | In Frans Sammut's novel Samuraj, the village in which most of the action takes place, is a metaphor of post-Independence Malta that is trying, and more often than not failing, to come to terms with what has been called the "severity of independence". The isolated, backward Village is plagued by the bipolar nature of its social make-up and strangled by its overpowering Church. Its 'moral' community takes the protagonist's refusal to toe the line as an affront to its authority, and its aggressive reaction forces him to turn to the painful, but fond memory of his battered mother for comfort, echoing independent Malta's inability to wean itself away from its colonised past. | en_GB |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | University of Malta. Faculty of Arts | en_GB |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | en_GB |
dc.subject | Sammut, Frans, 1945-2011. Samuraj -- Criticism and interpretation | en_GB |
dc.subject | Sammut, Frans, 1945-2011 -- Themes, motives | en_GB |
dc.subject | Malta -- In literature | en_GB |
dc.title | A village for an island : Malta in Frans Sammut's novel Samuraj | en_GB |
dc.type | article | en_GB |
dc.rights.holder | The copyright of this work belongs to the author(s)/publisher. The rights of this work are as defined by the appropriate Copyright Legislation or as modified by any successive legislation. Users may access this work and can make use of the information contained in accordance with the Copyright Legislation provided that the author must be properly acknowledged. Further distribution or reproduction in any format is prohibited without the prior permission of the copyright holder. | en_GB |
dc.description.reviewed | peer-reviewed | en_GB |
dc.publication.title | Humanitas: Journal of the Faculty of Arts | en_GB |
Appears in Collections: | Humanitas : volume 1 : 1999 Humanitas : volume 1 : 1999 Scholarly Works - FacArtMal |
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