On the Plantation
Author : Joel Chandler Harris
Publisher :
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 22,18 MB
Release : 1892
Category : African Americans
ISBN :
Author : Joel Chandler Harris
Publisher :
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 22,18 MB
Release : 1892
Category : African Americans
ISBN :
Author : Joel Chandler Harris
Publisher :
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 26,52 MB
Release : 1883
Category : African American men
ISBN :
Drafts, autograph manuscript, corrected, of the introduction and chapters 37 and 39 through 71.
Author : Joel Chandler Harris
Publisher : Book Jungle
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 37,70 MB
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781594623622
I am advised by my publishers that this book is to be included in their catalogue of humorous publications, and this friendly warning gives me an opportunity to say that however humorous it may be in effect, its intention is perfectly serious; and, even if it were otherwise, it seems to me that a volume written wholly in dialect must have its solemn, not to say melancholy, features. With respect to the Folk-Lore series, my purpose has been to preserve the legends themselves in their original simplicity, and to wed them permanently to the quaint dialect-if, indeed, it can be called a dialect-through the medium of which they have become a part of the domestic history of every Southern family; and I have endeavored to give to the whole a genuine flavor of the old plantation...
Author : Joel Chandler Harris
Publisher :
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 34,19 MB
Release : 1887
Category : African Americans
ISBN :
Author : Joel Chandler Harris
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 17,60 MB
Release : 1948
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780395068007
A collection of 60 stories taken from seven of the Uncle Remus books.
Author : Walter M. Brasch
Publisher :
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 36,64 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Brasch defends the accuracy of Harris's literary depiction of both American Black English and Reconstruction Georgia. Brasch also examines the nature of fame and places a variety of other social and political issues in the context of this major American writer.
Author : R. Bruce Bickley, Jr.
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 37,36 MB
Release : 2008-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0820331856
This biography and critical study reconstructs Harris's life and career from his humble origins as an illegitimate child and plantation-newspaper printer's devil through his years in Macon, Forsyth, Savannah, and Atlanta. When Harris died in 1908, his national and international popularity rivaled his friend Mark Twain's. A psychologically complex person, Harris became an accomplished Southern local colorist who left multiple legacies as an American humorist, folklorist, New South journalist, children's writer, and author. He helped make the Old South New. Harris's Uncle Remus trickster tales derive primarily from transplanted Senegambian African folklore and are rhetorically and sociologically complex representations of the often predatory world of Old South slave life--where survival depends on trickery, wit, and will pitted against the brute strength of overseers and masters. Controversial today because he was a white man retelling black folk narratives, Harris nevertheless helped preserve the trickster tale-cycle and promote black folk-tale collecting, generally; hundreds of scholars and linguists have studied his works. Harris also made Brer Rabbit, the tar baby, and the briar patch popular-culture icons, and his highly believable animal characters and dialogues influenced the techniques of Rudyard Kipling, A. A. Milne, Beatrix Potter, E. B. White, and other children's authors. Finally, Harris's poor white and African American characters and narratives have left their mark on writers from his time to our times--from Twain to Zora Neale Hurston, William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, Ralph Ellison, and Toni Morrison.
Author : Joel Chandler Harris
Publisher :
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 37,89 MB
Release : 1907
Category : African Americans
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Author : Gregory C. Lisby
Publisher :
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 49,73 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
The son of noted journalist and folklorist Joel Chandler Harris, Julian Harris (1874-1963) struggled all his life to carve his own niche in the world and emerge from the shadow of his famous father. As editor of the Columbus Enquirer-Sun, Harris found both his voice and soapbox. There, with his equally talented wife, journalist Julia Collier Harris, he spent the 1920s fighting the Ku Klux Klan, lynching, anti-evolution laws, Prohibition, corruption in state government, and substandard public education. It took uncommon courage to push a progressive agenda in a provincial cottonmill town like Columbus during the twenties and Harris, more than any other man, deserves credit for freeing Georgia from the grip of the Klan. For his efforts, he and his newspaper won the 1926 Pulitzer Prize for public service; he was the first Georgian to be so honored.
Author : Don Daily
Publisher : Running Press Kids
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,76 MB
Release : 2004-02-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780762417124
Follow the adventures of crafty B'rer Rabbit and his friends in seven playful folktales with roots in traditional African stories. Told and retold for hundreds of years, this young-reader's version of these folktales retains the original humor and wisdom, com- plemented by spirited, full-color illustrations by Don Daily.