Scottish Diaspora Writing in Australia: Contemporary Hybridity and Literary Representations of the Scottish Migrant Experience and Over the Sea to Skye

Utilising both historical and contemporary texts, the project explores how the Scottish immigrant narrative has evolved in the two centuries since the Scots first arrived in Australia. Via an exegesis examining diasporic theories associated with cultural hybridity in relation to Scottish migrant ide...

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Main Author: Laverty, Paul J.
Format: Thesis
Published: Curtin University 2025
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/97826
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description Utilising both historical and contemporary texts, the project explores how the Scottish immigrant narrative has evolved in the two centuries since the Scots first arrived in Australia. Via an exegesis examining diasporic theories associated with cultural hybridity in relation to Scottish migrant identities in Australia and other former British colonies, it also consists of a work of literary fiction, depicting a working-class Scottish family who have migrated to Australia in the late-twentieth century.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-978262025-05-29T07:08:28Z Scottish Diaspora Writing in Australia: Contemporary Hybridity and Literary Representations of the Scottish Migrant Experience and Over the Sea to Skye Laverty, Paul J. Utilising both historical and contemporary texts, the project explores how the Scottish immigrant narrative has evolved in the two centuries since the Scots first arrived in Australia. Via an exegesis examining diasporic theories associated with cultural hybridity in relation to Scottish migrant identities in Australia and other former British colonies, it also consists of a work of literary fiction, depicting a working-class Scottish family who have migrated to Australia in the late-twentieth century. 2025 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/97826 Curtin University fulltext
spellingShingle Laverty, Paul J.
Scottish Diaspora Writing in Australia: Contemporary Hybridity and Literary Representations of the Scottish Migrant Experience and Over the Sea to Skye
title Scottish Diaspora Writing in Australia: Contemporary Hybridity and Literary Representations of the Scottish Migrant Experience and Over the Sea to Skye
title_full Scottish Diaspora Writing in Australia: Contemporary Hybridity and Literary Representations of the Scottish Migrant Experience and Over the Sea to Skye
title_fullStr Scottish Diaspora Writing in Australia: Contemporary Hybridity and Literary Representations of the Scottish Migrant Experience and Over the Sea to Skye
title_full_unstemmed Scottish Diaspora Writing in Australia: Contemporary Hybridity and Literary Representations of the Scottish Migrant Experience and Over the Sea to Skye
title_short Scottish Diaspora Writing in Australia: Contemporary Hybridity and Literary Representations of the Scottish Migrant Experience and Over the Sea to Skye
title_sort scottish diaspora writing in australia: contemporary hybridity and literary representations of the scottish migrant experience and over the sea to skye
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/97826