Name: Uncle Remus: His Songs and his Sayings
Price: 41.06 NZD
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Author: Joel Chandler Harris
ISBN: 9781680922455

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Physical Book

Publisher

12Th Media Services

Author

Joel Chandler Harris

Language

English

Pages

122

ISBN13

9781680922455

Uncle Remus: His Songs and his Sayings

Joel Chandler Harris (Author) · 12Th Media Services · Physical Book

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Synopsis "Uncle Remus: His Songs and his Sayings"

Uncle Remus is a collection of animal stories songs and oral folklore collected from southern African Americans Many of the stories are didactic much like those of Aesop39s Fables and Jean de La Fontaine39s stories Uncle Remus is a kindly old freedman who serves as a storytelling device passing on the folktales to children gathered around himUncle Remus is the fictional title character and narrator of a collection of AfricanAmerican folktales adapted and compiled by Joel Chandler Harris published in book form in 1881 A journalist in postReconstruction Atlanta Georgia Harris produced seven Uncle Remus books He wrote these stories to represent the struggle in the Southern United States and more specifically in the plantations He did so by introducing tales he had heard and framing them in the plantation context He wrote his stories in a dialect that represented the voice of the narrators and their subculture Source Wikipedia