Article: Walter M. Brasch. Brer Rabbit, Uncle Remus, and the Cornfield Journalist.(Book Review)

Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2000. 400 pages. $35.00.

As one reviewer has stated: "Walter Brasch's energetic and engaging biography reconstructs the active professional life and rich sociological and historical legacy of Joel Chandler Harris as a journalist and dialect writer." (Dr. R. Bruce Bickley, Jr. of Florida State University). While not the traditional social science academic work, the volume deals with numerous social issues of race and Afro-American folklore. Writing during and following the Civil War, Harris's humorous paragraphs and political barbs were picked up by regional newspapers. He has become a major revealer of Black English dialect and ...

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