Harris, Joel Chandler
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Harris, Joel Chandler (1848–1908), American author of the famous ‘Uncle Remus’ series. These contain a great number of folklore tales, relating to a variety of animals, with the rabbit as hero and the fox next in importance (i.e., Brer Fox and Brer Rabbit) told by a ‘Negro’ to a little boy and interspersed with comments on many other subjects. See also
cultural appropriation.
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Joel Chandler Harris.
Magazine article from: The Nation; 5/9/1987; ; 700+ words
; JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS. As one of the foremost Harris scholarsin...Bickley also makes claims for "Harris's keen perception of the particulars...professorial hyperbole will elevate Joel Chandler Harris to the ranks of his more eminent literary...
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Joel Chandler Harris: An Annotated Bibliography of Criticism, 1977-1996, with Supplement, 1892-1976.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Mississippi Quarterly; 9/22/1998; ; 700+ words
; Joel Chandler Hams: An Annotated Bibliography...anyone who knows more about Joel Chandler Harris than R. Bruce Bickley...to Bickley's 1979 work Joel Chandler Hams: A Reference Guide...summarize works dealing with Harris through 1976. Part one...
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Black father: the subversive achievement of Joel Chandler Harris.
Magazine article from: African American Review; 3/22/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...er you kin black 'im up des ez you please.--Joel Chandler Harris, "The Adventures of Simon and Susanna" (Complete Tales 459) A century ago Joel Chandler Harris was famous. His first and best known book, Uncle...
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Brer Rabbit, Uncle Remus, and the `Cornfield Journalist'.(The Tale of Joel Chandler Harris)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Southern Cultures; 12/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; The Tale of Joel Chandler Harris By Walter M. Brasch Mercer University Press, 2000 399 pp...decades of scholarship to find that charges of racism had put Joel Chandler Harris "in bad odor among the younger generation of literary men...
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Brer Rabbit, Uncle Remus, and the "Cornfield Journalist": The Tale of Joel Chandler Harris
Magazine article from: Journal of American Folklore; 1/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...and the"Cornfield Journalist": The Tale of Joel Chandler Harris. By Walter M. Brasch. (Macon, Ga.: Mercer...researched and engagingly written biography of Joel Chandler Harris attempts to clarify the intentions of this enigmatic...
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Br'er Rabbit, Uncle Remus, and the 'Cornfield Journalist': The Tale of Joel Chandler Harris
Magazine article from: South Carolina Historical Magazine; 7/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...and the 'Cornfield Journalist': The Tale of Joel Chandler Harris. By Walter M. Brausch. (Macon: Mercer University...2000. Pp. xxxii, 399; $35.00, cloth.) Joel Chandler Harris has never lacked for scholarly attention. One...
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Plutarch's 'Life of Alexander' and Joel Chandler Harris's story of "Brother Rabbit, Brother Fox and Two Fat Pullets" (1918).
Magazine article from: The Mississippi Quarterly; 3/22/1998; ; 700+ words
; Scholarship concerning Joel Chandler Harris's stories of Uncle Remus has...studies have explored the influence Harris has had upon other writers or in...brilliant twist of wit and erudition, Joel Chandler Harris has had the last...
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The other fellow. (Joel Chandler Harris)
Magazine article from: The Nation; 5/9/1987; ; 700+ words
; ...1905 Atlanta banquet attended by Joel Chandler Harris, "but Uncle Remus stays put...century of the imaginary slave who, Harris tells us, had "nothing but pleasant...have stayed put, little else from Harris' prolific writings--six collections...
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Brer Rabbit, Uncle Remus, and the 'Cornfield Journalist': The Tale of Joel Chandler Harris
Magazine article from: Journalism History; 7/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...and the `Cornfield Journalist': The Tale of Joel Chandler Harris. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2000...Walter NL Brasch's exploration of the life of Joel Chandler Harris. He wrote about Uncle Remus, a black storyteller...
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Geographic context and ethnic context: Joel Chandler Harris and Alice Walker.
Magazine article from: The Mississippi Quarterly; 3/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...ALICE WALKER (BORN IN 1944) AND JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS (BORN IN 1845) are both from...is the town of Eatonton. When Harris was a teenager, he was hired as...today from the way they were when Harris was born. African Americans do...
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Joel Chandler Harris
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Joel Chandler Harris American writer Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908) used folklore, fiction...contributed valuable intimate details in Life and Letters of Joel Chandler Harris (1918) and Joel Chandler Harris as Editor and Essayist...
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Harris, Joel Chandler
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Harris, Joel Chandler (1848–1908), born and...first of a number of volumes in which Harris portrayed Georgia aristocrats, poor...1902), all of which contribute to Harris's eminence among authors of local...
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Local-Color Fiction
Book article from: American Eras
...Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909), Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908), and Helen Hunt...of literary critics. Although Harris and other male authors—...Story of a Country Town (1883). Joel Chandler Harris, a journalist...
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The 1900s: The Arts: Deaths
Book article from: American Decades
...American dramatist, 4 September 1909. Wendell P. Garrison, 67, literary editor of The Nation, 27 February 1907. Joel Chandler Harris, 68, southern writer, introduced African folk characters into mainstream American literature {The Uncle Remus...
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Henry Woodfin Grady
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Further Reading A number of good studies of Grady are available. The largest collection of his own utterances is Joel Chandler Harris, ed., Life of Henry W. Grady: Including His Writings and Speeches (1890). The first full-scale biography...
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