Bibliograph

Wild nights and savage festivities, white views of corroborees, Candice Bruce, Anita Callaway

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Wild nights and savage festivities, white views of corroborees, Candice Bruce, Anita Callaway

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Wild nights and savage festivities

Responsibility statement

Candice Bruce, Anita Callaway

Sub title

white views of corroborees

Summary

Discusses depiction of corroborees by white artists; analyses what these representations show about white attitudes to Indigenous people and to themselves; racial attitudes; outline of some of the works depicting corroborees; argues corroborees regarded with mixture of fear and sexual fascination with some associating them with cannibalism and warfare; colonisation lead to decline in corroborees but argues also affected by being staged for entertainment of colonists, with participants seen as curiosities

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