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Article: Brer Rabbit, Uncle Remus, and the `Cornfield Journalist'.(The Tale of Joel Chandler Harris)(Book Review)
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- Southern Cultures
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- December 22, 2002
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The Tale of Joel Chandler Harris By Walter M. Brasch Mercer University Press, 2000 399 pp. Cloth $35.00.
In 1975 critic Robert A. Bone surveyed two decades of scholarship to find that charges of racism had put Joel Chandler Harris "in bad odor among the younger generation of literary men." But to most readers and even many scholars today, Harris is not only odorless but invisible--forgotten, ignored. Walter M. Brasch discovered this when he mentioned Harris and his Uncle Remus stories in passing to an upper-level college journalism class. "Who?" asked one brave soul, while the rest simply jotted down the unfamiliar name in their notebooks. Brer Rabbit, Uncle ...
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... ... stories of what Brer Rabbit had done of late ... The Tales of Uncle Remus" -- have fallen ... The Adventures of Brer Rabbit," is a 151 ... plots but without Uncle Remus. He has revised ... most familiar with Brer Rabbit through the 1946 ... which the character ...
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