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Uncle Remus-J.C.Harris-Early 1900's Uk Reprint

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Uncle Remus-J.C.Harris-Early 1900's Uk Reprint

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Uncle Remus is a fictional character, the title character and fictional narrator of a collection of African American folktales adapted and compiled by Joel Chandler Harris, published in book form in 1881. A journalist in post-Reconstruction Atlanta, Georgia, Harris produced seven Uncle Remus books. Uncle Remus is a collection of animal stories, songs, and oral folklore, collected from Southern United States blacks. 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 slave who serves as a storytelling device, passing on the folktales to children gathered around him. The stories are told in Harris's version of a Deep South slave dialect. The genre of stories is the trickster tale. At the time of Harris' publication, his work was praised for its ability to capture plantation negro dialect. Br'er Rabbit ("Brother Rabbit") is the main character of the stories, a likeable 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. Using the phrase "tar baby" to refer to the idea of "a problem that gets worse the more one struggles against it" became part of the wider culture of the United States in the mid-20th century. The animal stories were conveyed in a manner in which they were not deemed as ostensibly racist by many among the audiences of the time; by the mid-20th century, however, the dialect and the "old Uncle" stereotype of the narrator, was considered demeaning by many blacks, on account of what they considered to be racist and patronizing attitudes toward blacks.To be more specific, the "n" word that we now consider offensive is used quite frequently. However, Harris' work was an extraordinarily accurate account of the stories he heard from the slaves when he worked in a plantation as a young man. He listened to, and memorized, the African American animal stories told by Uncle George Terrell, Old Harbert, and Aunt Crissy at the plantation and wrote them down some years later: He later acknowledged his debt to them in his later fictionalized autobiography, 'On the Plantation' (1892). Many of these stories that he recorded have direct equivalents in the African oral tradition, and we owe it to Harris that he remembered them and wrote them down, thereby preserving them in their African-American form. This is an undated early 1900's UK reprint. 50 b/w illustrations by A.T.Elwes. No jacket.Some small marks to rear of cover, otherwise a very good copy.

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Children Of Men [rental Dvd]

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