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Joel Chandler Harris

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Born: December 08 1848

Died: 0202 07 19081908

Joel Chandler Harris was an American journalist born in Eatonton, Georgia who wrote the Uncle Remus stories, including Uncle Remus; His Songs and His Sayings, The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation, , Nights with Uncle Remus , Uncle Remus and His Friends , and Uncle Remus and the Little Boy .

The stories, based on the African-American oral storytelling tradition, were revolutionary in their use of dialect and in featuring a trickster hero called Br'er Rabbit, who uses his wits against adversity, though his efforts do not always succeed. The frog is the trickster character in traditional tales in Central and Southern Africa. The stories, which began appearing in the Atlanta Constitution in 1879, were popular among both Black and White readers in the North and South, not least because they presented an idealized view of race relations soon after the Civil War. The first published Brer Rabbit stories were written by President Theodore Roosevelt's uncle, Robert Roosevelt.

Joel Chandler Harris

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Born: December 08 1848

Died: 0202 07 19081908

Joel Chandler Harris was an American journalist born in Eatonton, Georgia who wrote the Uncle Remus stories, including Uncle Remus; His Songs and His Sayings, The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation, , Nights with Uncle Remus , Uncle Remus and His Friends , and Uncle Remus and the Little Boy .

The stories, based on the African-American oral storytelling tradition, were revolutionary in their use of dialect and in featuring a trickster hero called Br'er Rabbit, who uses his wits against adversity, though his efforts do not always succeed. The frog is the trickster character in traditional tales in Central and Southern Africa. The stories, which began appearing in the Atlanta Constitution in 1879, were popular among both Black and White readers in the North and South, not least because they presented an idealized view of race relations soon after the Civil War. The first published Brer Rabbit stories were written by President Theodore Roosevelt's uncle, Robert Roosevelt.

Books from Joel Chandler Harris

Classic Tales of Brer Rabbit

4.3/5 ( ratings)

The Complete Tales of Uncle Remus

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Walt Disney's Uncle Remus Stories (A Golden Book)

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings

3.4/5 ( ratings)

Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Brer Rabbit

3.9/5 ( ratings)

The Favorite Uncle Remus

Walt Disney's Brer Rabbit and His Friends

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Nights With Uncle Remus

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Brer Rabbit and the Tar Baby

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Jump!: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Stories Of Georgia

3.2/5 ( ratings)

Dėdulės Rimuso pasakos

3.6/5 ( ratings)

The Junior Classics, IX: Stories of To-day

4.1/5 ( ratings)

The Tar-Baby and Other Rhymes of Uncle Remus

On the Plantation: A Story of a Georgia Boy's Adventures During the War

2.7/5 ( ratings)

Onu Remuse jutte

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Uncle Remus Stories (Annotated)

The Book of Stories for the Story-Teller

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Walt Disney's the Wonderful Tar Baby

4.2/5 ( ratings)