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Harris, Joel Chandler (1848–1908)

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Brer Rabbit is one of the most famous and most endearing heroes created by US writer Joel Chandler Harris in his ‘Uncle Remus’ stories. Brer Rabbit is shown, in an illustration by J A Shepherd from 1901, relaxing in front of his fireplace. The stories were based on Harris's experiences as an apprentice journalist on a plantation newspaper.

US author. He wrote tales narrated by the former slave ‘Uncle Remus’, based on black folklore and involving the characters Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox, Brer Wolf, and Brer Bear.



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Enlarging on Charles Chesnutt's critique of a utopian South, Toomer offers a much more accurate and complex view than that of Reconstruction writers Thomas Nelson Page and Joel Chandler Harris, by rendering not only the beauty of the land but also the brutality of the culture.
Anissa Janine Wardi. Death and the Arc of Mourning in African ... by Lynch, Michael F. / African American Review
In his Pisan Cantos (perhaps his greatest celebration of the locus amoenus, written only a few miles south of Pea's Viareggio), he mentions Pea in the same breath as James Whitcomb Riley, the American dialect poet and a lifelong favorite of Pound's, as was Joel Chandler Harris.
Local colore by Sieburth, Richard / Artforum International
For that reason the book I'd particularly want to place in the hands of a child one hundred years from now is Uncle Remus, by Joel Chandler Harris.
Uncle Remus by Hoban, Russell / The Horn Book Magazine
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