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Article: Walter M. Brasch. Brer Rabbit, Uncle Remus, and the Cornfield Journalist.(Book Review)
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- International Social Science Review
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- September 22, 2001
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2001 Pi Gamma Mu. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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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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... ... Birmingham, Alabama WHEN JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS PUBLISHED HIS FIRST UNCLE REMUS folktales in the Atlanta ... s ex-slave narrator, Uncle Remus, "to all sorts of companies ... southern readers of Harris's Uncle Remus stories were in the process ...
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