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Uncle Remus, his songs and his sayings

his songs and his sayings

Also known as Uncle Remus

by Joel Chandler Harris & A. B. Frost

  • First published:
  • 18th century
  • Languages: English, Latin
  • Content type: FictionJuvenile
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"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. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Ancient religions, animism, and ritual and Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends.

  • Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends

    Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary-historical and project-gutenberg matched “Folk literature”, “Folklore”, “folklore”, and 3 additional term(s). Retained metadata contains “Folklore” in the description, “Tales” in the description, “Folk literature” in the subject metadata, and 3 additional metadata match(es).

    • “Folk literature”· via Open Library
    • “Folklore”· via Open Library
    • “Legends”· via Open Library
    • “Tales”· via Open Library
    • “folklore”· via Project Gutenberg
    • “mythology”· via Project Gutenberg
  • Ancient religions, animism, and ritual

    Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary-historical matched “Animism”.

    • “Animism”· via Open Library

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Uncle Remus

1921Grosset and DunlapEnglish—Public

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2000-08-01Project GutenbergEnglish—Public domain (USA)

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  • Open Library reports 1 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Open Library reports 20 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Open Library reports 37 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Open Library reports 4 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
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