Author: Joel Chandler HarrisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American men
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Drafts, autograph manuscript, corrected, of the introduction and chapters 37 and 39 through 71.
Nights with Uncle Remus
Author: Joel Chandler HarrisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American men
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Drafts, autograph manuscript, corrected, of the introduction and chapters 37 and 39 through 71.
Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit
Author: Joel Chandler HarrisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Uncle Remus
Author: Joel Chandler HarrisPublisher: Book Jungle
ISBN: 9781594623622
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
I am advised by my publishers that this book is to be included in their catalogue of humorous publications, and this friendly warning gives me an opportunity to say that however humorous it may be in effect, its intention is perfectly serious; and, even if it were otherwise, it seems to me that a volume written wholly in dialect must have its solemn, not to say melancholy, features. With respect to the Folk-Lore series, my purpose has been to preserve the legends themselves in their original simplicity, and to wed them permanently to the quaint dialect-if, indeed, it can be called a dialect-through the medium of which they have become a part of the domestic history of every Southern family; and I have endeavored to give to the whole a genuine flavor of the old plantation...
The Favorite Uncle Remus
Author: Joel Chandler HarrisPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395068007
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
A collection of 60 stories taken from seven of the Uncle Remus books.
Joel Chandler Harris
Author: R. Bruce Bickley, Jr.Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820331856
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
This biography and critical study reconstructs Harris's life and career from his humble origins as an illegitimate child and plantation-newspaper printer's devil through his years in Macon, Forsyth, Savannah, and Atlanta. When Harris died in 1908, his national and international popularity rivaled his friend Mark Twain's. A psychologically complex person, Harris became an accomplished Southern local colorist who left multiple legacies as an American humorist, folklorist, New South journalist, children's writer, and author. He helped make the Old South New. Harris's Uncle Remus trickster tales derive primarily from transplanted Senegambian African folklore and are rhetorically and sociologically complex representations of the often predatory world of Old South slave life--where survival depends on trickery, wit, and will pitted against the brute strength of overseers and masters. Controversial today because he was a white man retelling black folk narratives, Harris nevertheless helped preserve the trickster tale-cycle and promote black folk-tale collecting, generally; hundreds of scholars and linguists have studied his works. Harris also made Brer Rabbit, the tar baby, and the briar patch popular-culture icons, and his highly believable animal characters and dialogues influenced the techniques of Rudyard Kipling, A. A. Milne, Beatrix Potter, E. B. White, and other children's authors. Finally, Harris's poor white and African American characters and narratives have left their mark on writers from his time to our times--from Twain to Zora Neale Hurston, William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, Ralph Ellison, and Toni Morrison.
Uncle Remus Stories (Annotated)
Author: Joel Chandler HarrisPublisher: BookRix
ISBN: 373681240X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Uncle Remus Stories (1906) by Joel Chandler Harris (1845-1908), with illustratrions. Uncle Remus is a collection of animal stories, songs, and oral folklore, collected from Southern United States African-Americans. Many of the stories are didactic, much like those of Aesop's Fables and the stories of Jean de La Fontaine. Uncle Remus is a kindly old former slave who serves as a storytelling device, passing on the folktales to children gathered around him. Br'er Rabbit ("Brother Rabbit") is the main character of the stories, a likable character, prone to tricks and trouble-making who is often opposed by Br'er Fox and Br'er Bear. In one tale, Br'er Fox constructs a lump of tar and puts clothing on it. When Br'er Rabbit comes along he addresses the "tar baby" amiably, but receives no response. Br'er Rabbit becomes offended by what he perceives as Tar Baby's lack of manners, punches it, and becomes stuck.
On the Plantation
Author: Joel Chandler HarrisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Brer Rabbit, Uncle Remus, and the "Cornfield Journalist"
Author: Walter M. BraschPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Brasch defends the accuracy of Harris's literary depiction of both American Black English and Reconstruction Georgia. Brasch also examines the nature of fame and places a variety of other social and political issues in the context of this major American writer.
The Works of Joel Chandler Harris
Author: Joel Chandler HarrisPublisher:
ISBN: 9781357422837
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
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Classic Tales of Brer Rabbit
Author: Don DailyPublisher: Running Press Kids
ISBN: 9780762417124
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Follow the adventures of crafty B'rer Rabbit and his friends in seven playful folktales with roots in traditional African stories. Told and retold for hundreds of years, this young-reader's version of these folktales retains the original humor and wisdom, com- plemented by spirited, full-color illustrations by Don Daily.