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Fairy Tales & Folklore

Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings

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    Joel Chandler Harris's Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings is a folklore and fairy tales novel.

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    About Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings

    "Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings" by Joel Chandler Harris is a collection of African American folktales published in 1881. A journalist in post-Reconstruction Atlanta, Harris compiled traditional trickster tales featuring Br'er Rabbit and other animal characters, framing them through the fictional narrator Uncle Remus, a kindly freedman storyteller. Written in Harris's interpretation of Deep South Black dialect, these didactic stories have sparked ongoing controversy for their plantation setting and stylistic choices, even as they preserve oral folklore from Southern Black communities.
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    Themes, setting & tropes

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    Subjects

    • Remus, Uncle, Literary collections
    • African Americans, Folklore, Literary collections
    • African American men, Literary collections
    • Plantation life, Literary collections
    • Animals, Folklore, Literary collections
    • Georgia, Literary collections
    • African Americans, Songs and music

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    Who wrote Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings?

    Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings was written by Joel Chandler Harris.

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    It is usually shelved as Fairy Tales & Folklore.

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