"Uncle Remus Uncle Remus is the fictional title character and narrator of a collection of African-American folktales adapted and compiled by Joel Chandler Harris, published in book form in 1881. A journalist in post-Reconstruction Atlanta, Georgia, Harris produced seven Uncle Remus books. He wrote these stories to represent the struggle in the Southern United States, and more specifically in the plantations. He did so by introducing tales he had heard and framing them in the plantation context. He wrote his stories in a dialect that represented the voice of the narrators and their subculture. For this choice of framing, his"
"collection has encountered controversy. ""Uncle Remus"" is a collection of animal stories, songs, and oral folklore, collected from southern African Americans. Many of the stories are didactic, much like those of Aesop's Fables and Jean de La Fontaine's stories. Uncle Remus is a kindly old freedman who serves as a storytelling device, passing on the folktales to children gathered around him. The stories are written in an eye dialect devised by Harris to represent a Deep South Negro dialect. Uncle Remus is a compilation of Br'er Rabbit storytellers that Harris had encountered during his time at the Turnwold Plantation. Harris"
"Joel Chandler Harris House Joel Chandler Harris House, also known as The Wren's Nest or Snap Bean Farm, is a Queen Anne style house at 1050 Ralph D. Abernathy Blvd. (formerly Gordon Street.), SW. in Atlanta, Georgia. Built in 1870, it was home to Joel Chandler Harris, editor of the ""Atlanta Constitution"" and author of the ""Uncle Remus Tales"", from 1881 until his death in 1908. He is most known as author of the ""Uncle Remus"" tales, based upon stories he heard slaves tell during his youth. The house was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1962 for its association"
"Joel Chandler Harris House Joel Chandler Harris House, also known as The Wren's Nest or Snap Bean Farm, is a Queen Anne style house at 1050 Ralph D. Abernathy Blvd. (formerly Gordon Street.), SW. in Atlanta, Georgia. Built in 1870, it was home to Joel Chandler Harris, editor of the ""Atlanta Constitution"" and author of the ""Uncle Remus Tales"", from 1881 until his death in 1908. He is most known as author of the ""Uncle Remus"" tales, based upon stories he heard slaves tell during his youth. The house was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1962 for its association"
"Visiting"" and ""Heyo, House!"" are particularly similar. As a boy, Milne recalled listening to his father read one Uncle Remus story per night, and referred to it as ""the sacred book."" Charles Chesnutt's most famous work, ""The Conjure Woman"", is strongly influenced by the Uncle Remus tales; he features Uncle Julius as the main character and storyteller. Chesnutt read the Uncle Remus stories to his own children. Many scholars cite Harris' influence on William Faulkner, most importantly in terms of dialect usage, depictions of African Americans, lower-class whites, and fictionalized landscape. Poets Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot corresponded in"
"Joel Chandler Harris Joel Chandler Harris (December 9, 1848 – July 3, 1908) was an American journalist, fiction writer, and folklorist best known for his collection of Uncle Remus stories. Harris was born in Eatonton, Georgia, where he served as an apprentice on a plantation during his teenage years. He spent most of his adult life in Atlanta working as an associate editor at the ""Atlanta Constitution"". Harris led two professional lives: as the editor and journalist known as Joe Harris, he supported a vision of the New South with the editor Henry W. Grady (1880–1889), stressing regional and racial"
"Ishmael Reed Ishmael Scott Reed (born February 22, 1938) is an American poet, novelist, essayist, songwriter, playwright, editor and publisher, who is known for his satirical works challenging American political culture. Perhaps his best known work is ""Mumbo Jumbo"" (1972), a sprawling and unorthodox novel set in 1920s New York that has been ranked among the 500 most important books in the Western Canon. Reed's work has often sought to represent neglected African and African-American perspectives; his energy and advocacy have centered more broadly on neglected peoples and perspectives, irrespective of their cultural origins. Ishmael Reed was born in Chattanooga,"
"for Best Original Song. Walter White of the NAACP acknowledged ""the remarkable artistic merit"" of the film in his telegraphed press release on November 27, 1946, but decried the ""impression it gives of an idyllic master-slave relationship."" Since its debut, the public perception of Harris and the Uncle Remus stories has largely been tied to the reception of ""Song of the South"". Joel Chandler Harris Joel Chandler Harris (December 9, 1848 – July 3, 1908) was an American journalist, fiction writer, and folklorist best known for his collection of Uncle Remus stories. Harris was born in Eatonton, Georgia, where he"
"His Songs and His Sayings"" (1880). The stories, mostly collected directly from the African-American oral storytelling tradition, were revolutionary in their use of dialect, animal personages, and serialized landscapes. Remus' stories featured a trickster hero called Br'er Rabbit (Brother Rabbit), who used his wits against adversity, though his efforts did not always succeed. Br'er Rabbit is a direct interpretation of Yoruba tales of Hare, though some others posit Native American influences as well. The scholar Stella Brewer Brookes asserts, ""Never has the trickster been better exemplified than in the Br'er Rabbit of Harris."" Br'er Rabbit was accompanied by friends and"
"Uncle Remus-inspired dialect, referring to themselves as ""Brer Rabbit"" and ""Old Possum,"" respectively. Eventually the dialect and the personae became a sign of their collaboration against the London literary establishment. Eliot titled one of his books ""Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats"". Ralph Bakshi wrote and directed a 1975 American live action/animated crime film titled ""Coonskin"" based on Harris' Brothers rabbit, fox, and bear who rise to the top of the organized crime racket in Harlem, encountering corrupt law enforcement, con artists, and the Mafia. In 1946, the Walt Disney Company produced a film based on the Uncle Remus tales"
"Harris included a version of it in his ""Uncle Remus and His Friends"" (1892), and in 1915, E. C. Perrow included a version with his article ""Songs and Rhymes from the South"" in ""The Journal of American Folklore"". Dorothy Scarborough and Ola Lee Gulledge, in their book ""On the Trail of Negro Folk-songs"", included two versions, collected from two different states, and in his book ""American Negro Folk-Songs"" (1928), Newman White includes four different variations. Folklorist Alan Lomax recorded folk versions from at least two different sources, one in 1933 from a black prisoner named Moses Platt, and another in"
"a problematic and contradictory figure: sometimes a mouthpiece for white paternalism, sometimes a stereotype of the black entertainer, and sometimes poetically subversive. Julius Lester, a black folklorist and university professor, sees the Uncle Remus stories as important records of black folklore. He has rewritten many of the Harris stories in an effort to elevate the subversive elements over the purportedly racist ones. Regarding the nature of the Uncle Remus character, Lester said, There are no inaccuracies in Harris's characterization of Uncle Remus. Even the most cursory reading of the slave narratives collected by the Federal Writer's Project of the 1930s"
"delved into the changing social and economic values in the South during Reconstruction. Harris's turn as a local colorist gave voice to poor white characters and demonstrated his fluency with different African-American dialects and characters. Harris's legacy has largely been ignored by academia, in part due to the Uncle Remus character, use of dialect, and plantation setting. Harris's books exerted a profound influence on storytellers at home and abroad, yet the Uncle Remus tales effectively have no critical standing. His legacy is, at the same time, not without considerable controversy: Harris's critical reputation in the 20th and 21st centuries has"
"The Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit The Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit is a 1987 Children's book by Julius Lester and illustrator Jerry Pinkney. It is a retelling of the American Br'er Rabbit tales. ""Publishers Weekly"" in a review of ""The Tales of Uncle Remus"" wrote ""This collection is important as a way of introducing readers to the Harris tales; it also stands alone as a volume of wonderfully funny folktales. For many purists, though, it will not replace the original stories. Pinkney's drawings, both black-and-white and color, nicely combine realistic detail"
"Henry Bellamann Heinrich Hauer Bellamann (April 28, 1882 – June 16, 1945) was an American author, whose bestselling novel ""Kings Row"" exposed the hypocrisy of small-town life in the midwest, addressing many social taboos. Research suggested that Bellamann was working off resentment of his upbringing in Fulton, Missouri, where he had been ostracised for his German extraction and rumoured illegitimacy. The 1942 film version gave Ronald Reagan a star role, regarded as his most memorable performance. Bellamann was also a poet and a music professor at Vassar College. Bellamann was born in Fulton, Missouri, to parents George Henrik and Caroline"
"the Oakland chapter of PEN, known as the ""blue collar PEN,"" which also gives annual awards to writers. Kip Hanrahan has released three albums featuring lyrics by Reed: David Murray has released several albums featuring lyrics by Reed: Yosvany Terry has released one album including lyrics by Reed: Releases produced by Ishmael Reed Ishmael Reed Ishmael Scott Reed (born February 22, 1938) is an American poet, novelist, essayist, songwriter, playwright, editor and publisher, who is known for his satirical works challenging American political culture. Perhaps his best known work is ""Mumbo Jumbo"" (1972), a sprawling and unorthodox novel set in"
"Searching the Worlds of John Rechy"". John Rechy John Francisco Rechy (born March 10, 1931) is an American novelist, essayist, memoirist, dramatist and literary critic. In his novels, he has written extensively about gay culture in Los Angeles and wider America, among other subject matters, and is among the pioneers of modern LGBT literature. ""City of Night"", his debut novel published in 1963, was a best seller. Drawing on his own background, he has contributed to Chicano literature, notably with his novel ""The Miraculous Day of Amalia Gomez"", which has been taught in several Chicano literature courses throughout the United"
"John H. Reese John Henry Reese (18 December 1910 – 15 August 1981) was an American author of Western and Crime Fiction. He won the prestigious 1952 ""New York Herald Tribune"" award for his first children's book, ""Big Mutt"". He produced more than 40 Western novels and well over three hundred short stories. His first novel ""Sheehan's Mill"", not in the Western genre, was published by Doubleday in 1943, during wartime publishing restrictions. Reese was born in Sweetwater, Nebraska, and died in Santa Maria, California. He went to school in Nebraska and Kansas. ""I was the eldest of six children"
"His ""Don't Call Me Madame"" was filmed as ""Tillie and Gus"" (1933). Another one of his stories was filmed as ""Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen"" (1934). Rupert Hughes Rupert Hughes (January 31, 1872 – September 9, 1956) was an American novelist, film director, Oscar-nominated screenwriter, military officer, and music composer. He was the brother of Howard R. Hughes, Sr. and uncle of billionaire Howard R. Hughes, Jr. His three-volume scholarly biography of George Washington broke new ground in demythologizing Washington and was well received by historians. A staunch anti-Communist, in the 1940s he served as president of the American Writers"
"Wilson Rawls Woodrow Wilson Rawls, (September 24, 1913 - December 16, 1984) was an American writer best known for his books ""Where the Red Fern Grows"" and ""Summer of the Monkeys"". When Rawls was 16, the United States economy entered the Great Depression, prompting his family to leave their Oklahoma home for California; however, the family's convertible broke down near Albuquerque, New Mexico, where Rawls's father found a job at the local toothpaste factory. In the 1930s and 1940s, Rawls became a carpenter and traveled to South America, Canada, and Alaska. He wrote five manuscripts during this period, including ""Where"
"the Uncle Remus stories, adopting the words: ""cottontail,"" ""puddle-duck,"" and ""lippity-(c)lippity"" into her own work. Mark Twain incorporated several of the Uncle Remus stories into readings during his book tour. He wrote to William Dean Howells in the early 1880s, reporting that the ""Tar Baby"" had been received ""best of all"" at a reading in Hartford. Twain admired Harris' use of dialect. He appropriated exchanges and turns of phrase in many of his works, most notably in ""Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"" and ""The Mysterious Stranger"". A.A. Milne borrowed diction, plot, and narrative structure from several Brer Rabbit stories. ""Pooh Goes"
"of the old school life."" The Uncle Remus tales have since been translated into more than forty languages. James Weldon Johnson called the collection ""the greatest body of folklore America has produced."" Early in his career at the ""Atlanta Constitution"", Joe Harris laid out his editorial ideology and set the tone for an agenda that aimed to help reconcile issues of race, class, and region: ""An editor must have a purpose. ... What a legacy for one's conscience to know that one has been instrumental in mowing down the old prejudices that rattle in the wind like weeds."" Harris served"
"Henry Dumas Henry Dumas (July 20, 1934 – May 23, 1968) was an African-American writer and poet. He has been called ""an absolute genius"" by Toni Morrison, who as a commissioning editor at Random House published collections both of his poetry, ""Play Ebony, Play Ivory"", and his short stories, ""Ark of Bones"". Dumas was born in Sweet Home, Arkansas, in 1934 and lived there until the age of ten, when he moved to New York City; however, he always kept with him the religious and folk traditions of his hometown. In Harlem, he attended public school and graduated from Commerce"
"with Harris, and is also designated as a historic building by the City of Atlanta. It is now a historic house museum. The house was built circa 1868 in an area then known for its upper-class residents. Harris began renting the home in 1881 before buying it two years later thanks to earnings from his first book ""Uncle Remus: Songs and Sayings"". He lived here until his death in 1908. Harris had the home extended with six additional rooms and a new Queen Anne-style facade added in 1884. A furnace, indoor plumbing, and electricity were added circa 1900. Harris originally"
"William Gilmore Simms William Gilmore Simms (April 17, 1806 – June 11, 1870) was a poet, novelist and historian from the American South. His writings achieved great prominence during the 19th century, with Edgar Allan Poe pronouncing him the best novelist America had ever produced. He is still known among literary scholars as a major force in antebellum Southern literature. He is also remembered for his strong support of slavery and for his opposition to ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"", in response to which he wrote reviews and a pro-slavery novel. Simms was born on April 17, 1806, in Charleston, South Carolina,"
"September 4, 2013, episode of ""Late Night with Jimmy Fallon"", ""Uncle Wiggly's Rheumatism"" book was on the ""Do Not Read List"" skit. Uncle Wiggily Uncle Wiggily Longears is the main character of a series of children's stories by American author Howard R. Garis. He began writing the stories for the ""Newark News"" in 1910. Garis penned an Uncle Wiggily story every day (except Sundays) for more than 30 years, and published 79 books in his lifetime. According to his obituary in the ""Chicago Tribune"", a walk in the woods in Verona, New Jersey was his inspiration. The books featured work"
"Uncle Remus's stories, which are a collection of animal stories, songs, and oral folklore, collected from southern African-Americans. The stories main characters are Brother Rabbit, Brother Fox and Brother Bear. From these stories, Davis adopted Remus as his BBQ forename. The second part of his name comes from a lesser known source. When Davis was young, his father was a mechanic and worked with a man with the last name Powers. As Davis grew up, he learned many things from Mr. Powers and to this day remembers him and has honored him by making Powers his BBQ surname. Davis writes"
"Isabella Russell-Ides Isabella Russell-Ides (born January 24, 1948) is an American poet, playwright, and novelist. She received the 2008 Critics Forum Award for her play ""Coco & Gigi"". She has also received critical acclaim for her works, ""Leonard's Car"" (""Outstanding New Play"", 2009 Nora's Playhouse, NYC), ""Fortune Cookie Smash"" (2007 Best of Fest, Frontera). She is noted for the poetic and heightened language of her texts. Her debut novel, ""White Monkey Chronicles: The Complete Trilogy"", published under the pen name Isabella Ides, (March 2018, Lowell Street Press) featuring the monkey god Lord Hanuman and a rogue order of nuns in"
"Letters. Harris traveled to accept an invitation to the White House by President Theodore Roosevelt. Two years earlier, Roosevelt had said, ""Presidents may come and presidents may go, but Uncle Remus stays put. Georgia has done a great many things for the Union, but she has never done more than when she gave Mr. Joel Chandler Harris to American literature."" On July 3, 1908, Joel Chandler Harris died of acute nephritis and complications from cirrhosis of the liver. In his obituary, the ""New York Times Book Review"" echoed Roosevelt's sentiment, stating: ""Uncle Remus cannot die. Joel Chandler Harris has departed"
"Rupert Hughes Rupert Hughes (January 31, 1872 – September 9, 1956) was an American novelist, film director, Oscar-nominated screenwriter, military officer, and music composer. He was the brother of Howard R. Hughes, Sr. and uncle of billionaire Howard R. Hughes, Jr. His three-volume scholarly biography of George Washington broke new ground in demythologizing Washington and was well received by historians. A staunch anti-Communist, in the 1940s he served as president of the American Writers Association, a group of anti-Communist writers. Hughes was born on January 31, 1872, in Lancaster, Missouri, the son of Jean Amelia (née Summerlin; 1842–1928) and Judge"
"John Rechy John Francisco Rechy (born March 10, 1931) is an American novelist, essayist, memoirist, dramatist and literary critic. In his novels, he has written extensively about gay culture in Los Angeles and wider America, among other subject matters, and is among the pioneers of modern LGBT literature. ""City of Night"", his debut novel published in 1963, was a best seller. Drawing on his own background, he has contributed to Chicano literature, notably with his novel ""The Miraculous Day of Amalia Gomez"", which has been taught in several Chicano literature courses throughout the United States. Rechy was born March 10,"
"Some of his most famous works are ""Wings of The Stork"" (1949), ""Poet Letters (1949), ""Pyramid 67"" (1950), ""Modern Greek"" (1952), ""His Nipples and Manuscripts of Max Tod"" (1960), ""Criticism of War"" (1962), ""Corridors"" (1979), ""The Furies"" (1980) and ""Cats"" (1989), and ""Vortex"" (1993). One book, ""Centauri"" was published posthumously, in 2012. Renos Apostolidis Renos Apostolidis (; 2 March 1924 – 10 March 2004) was a Greek writer, philologist and literary critic. His father was Heracles N. Apostolidis, a notable journalist and director of the National Library between 1945 and 1959. His mother Elpiniki (née Zambeli) was a teacher. Apostolidis"
"Doc Pomus Jerome Solon Felder (June 27, 1925 – March 14, 1991), known as Doc Pomus, was an American blues singer and songwriter. He is best known as the lyricist of many rock and roll hits. Pomus was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a non-performer in 1992, the Songwriters Hall of Fame (1992), and the Blues Hall of Fame (2012). Born Jerome Solon Felder in 1925 in Brooklyn, New York, he was the son of Jewish immigrants. Felder became a fan of the blues after hearing a Big Joe Turner record. Having had polio as"