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Tales of Uncle Remus
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Joel Chandler Harris
• Born 1845/8 to unwedmother in Georgia
• Poor, stutterer, shy andself-conscious
• Scant education, printers devil at local newspaper owned by Joseph A. Turner
• Turner owned Turnwold Plantation, where Harris first met black slaves
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• Harris spent time withslaves learning songs andstories, dialect
• 1866 Civil War and Turner’sbusiness ended
• Harris moved through series of newspaper jobs• 1876 worked for Atlanta Constitution until
death in 1908• Contemporary and friend of Mark Twain
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Uncle Remus works
• Uncle Remus: His Songsand Sayings (1880)
• Nights with Uncle Remus(1883)
• 6 more volumes duringhis life
• 2 more volumes afterhis death
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Stories Wildly Popular
• Called “first graphic pictures of genuine Negro life in the South”
• “the First real book of American folklore”
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Remus
• Character created by Harris based on people he knew
• Remus serves as narrator and provides continuity of tales
• Remus is elderly, former slave working for former masters
• Remus is non-threatening, especially to white audiences
• Remus is alter-ego of Harris (?)
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Remus and the boy
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Brer Rabbit
• Trickster in long folklore tradition (European, African, American)
• Representative of Blacks (?)
• Stories come from pre-1880 African-American tales, shaped by black artist under slavery
• Of 220 tales, over half have roots in African tales
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Qualities of Dialect
• Word play• Word coinage• Authenticity to scene
and character• Poetic usage• Humor
Brer Tarrypin
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Brer Rabbit and Miss Cow
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Illustrations!
Brer Rabbit
And Brer Fox
(1881 edition)
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AnAmerican
Community!
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Brer Rabbit meets his match.
Cf. Aesop
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Most Famous: Tarbaby Tale
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Issued in many
editions since
Harris’ death.