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Tales of Uncle Remus

Tales of Uncle Remus. Joel Chandler Harris. Born 1845/8 to unwed mother in Georgia Poor, stutterer, shy and self-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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Tales of Uncle Remus

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  1. Tales of Uncle Remus

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. Uncle Remus works • Uncle Remus: His Songsand Sayings (1880) • Nights with Uncle Remus(1883) • 6 more volumes duringhis life • 2 more volumes afterhis death

  5. Stories Wildly Popular • Called “first graphic pictures of genuine Negro life in the South” • “the First real book of American folklore”

  6. 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 (?)

  7. Remus and the boy

  8. 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

  9. Qualities of Dialect • Word play • Word coinage • Authenticity to sceneand character • Poetic usage • Humor Brer Tarrypin

  10. Brer Rabbit and Miss Cow

  11. Illustrations! Brer Rabbit And Brer Fox (1881 edition)

  12. AnAmerican Community!

  13. Brer Rabbit meets his match. Cf. Aesop

  14. Most Famous: Tarbaby Tale

  15. Issued in many editions since Harris’ death.

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