April 12, 2024
1908 UNCLE REMUS Fairy TAR BABY Tales SONG OF THE SOUTH Joel Chandler HARRIS csa
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UNCLE REMUSHIS SONGS AND HIS SAYINGST his auction is for an original 1908 edition of " UNCLE REMUS: HIS SONGS AND HIS SAYINGS " by Joel Chandler Harris. YOU'LL LOVE THIS BOOK!!! I t is a collection of animal stories, songs, ballads, oral folklore, and plantation stories collected from the folktales of Southern Blacks. I t contains 265 pages and is beautifully illustrated with an astounding 112 ILLUSTRATIONS!!! by A. B. FROST . Uncle Remus, the title character and fictional narrator of these stories, is a kindly old slave who serves as a storytelling device passing on the folktales to the white children gathered around him. T hese tales were created out of sorrow but the hearts and minds of the black people who formed them and passed them on to us were full of love and hope. LOOK AT THESE TALES AS A CELEBRATION OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT! T he stories are told in Harris' version of Deep South slave dialect with a moral message. The genre of stories is the "trickster tale." Trickster stories are short narratives that use animal characters with human features to convey folk wisdom and to help us understand human nature and human behavior. These stories were originally passed down by African slaves through oral tradition and eventually developed into BRER RABBIT stories. They were eventually written down in the 19th century in the Southern
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