Harris, Joel Chandler. Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings [VINTAGE 1902]. D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1902.

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Condition: Good

Description: Good condition red cloth boards with gold front cover and spine lettering with gold and brown front cover illustrations. Includes Preface and Dedication to the New Edition; Introduction; List of Full-Page Illustrations; and a six page rear section of D. Appleton publisher advertisements for their publications. Illustrated with black-and-white drawings, black-and-white illustrated plates, a black-and-white frontispiece plate and black-and-white illustrated front and rear endpapers. The first three front endpapers are loose and the rear endpapers has been removed. This is a 1902 printing. "Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings includes thirty-four folktales narrated by Uncle Remus, and elderly man living in a cabin on Sally and John Huntington's plantation. His listener is their seven year old son, John, who returns nightly to Uncle Remus's side to hear about the fates of BrerRabbit, Brer Fox, Brer Wolf, Braer Tarrypin, and fellow animals as they enter into contests, pull pranks, and do their best to outwit each other at every encounter. The tales champion the weaker animals over the stornger ones , and range from playful trickery to violence, abuse, and destruction. Harris never spoke at length on the allegorical dimension of the tales, most likely due to his incapacitating shyness, yet readers and critics alike have noted the parallels to antebellum social hierarchy. Brer Rabbit, who is the central character of the tales, resembles the African archetypal trickster figure. Brer Fox, who presents the greatest threat to Brer Rabbit, is suggestive of the dominant white race. While the majority of the tales are recreated from over generations among enslaved African Americans living in the South, others are derived from European or Native American sources." - from docsouth dot unc dot edu

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