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'Idyllic accounts of South-East Queensland's triennial bunya festivals - invariably written by Europeans - seem to float like beckoning mirages above a relative historiographical desert. The story of the bunya gatherings in the coastal Blackall Ranges or in the Bunya Mountains, at the north-eastern periphery of the Darling Downs, is largely cut adrift from the intricate race relations history of these districts, its aura of ‘romantic reminiscence’ conveniently unsullied by surrounding patterns of colonialism, racism and violence which punctuate the extended process of European intrusion and displacement.'
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This essay includes a poem or lyrics from Songs of the Carobra (1855) which have not been recorded on AustLit but may have historical literary value.
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Against the Grain : Colonialism and the Demise of the Bunya Gatherings, 1839-1939
Queensland Review
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