Uncle Remus His Songs and His Sayings Joel Chandler Harris 9781117589121 Books
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This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. This text refers to the Bibliobazaar edition.
Uncle Remus His Songs and His Sayings Joel Chandler Harris 9781117589121 Books
Most people today (sadly) think of Joel Chandler Harris' Uncle Remus/Br'er Rabbit tales as racist apologetics for slavery. A good read of this seldom-read book shows that this was far from the case.This volume came on the heels of the better-known "Uncle Remus-His Songs and Sayings" which consisted of tales of the black sage Uncle Remus (based on a real slave storyteller named "Uncle" George Terrell) telling trickster tales of Br'er Rabbit. In this book, the concept is expanded. Uncle Remus is joined by Aunt Tempy, a gullah-speaking African slave named Daddy Jack, and a teenage-twentysomething black girl named Tildy, in relating the stories to the little white boy. Their personalities are expanded here, including a love story between the elderly Daddy Jack and the young Tildy. Uncle Remus even candidly discusses the racism of poor whites against blacks in one scene (note to "Song of the South" fans, he was referring to the Favors family, who were the villians in that film).
Although the nineteenth-century "Negro dialect" (once again) makes rough reading for modern readers, the results are well worth the effort. The stories are real knee-slappers, especially the tales of Brer Babbit tricking Brer Fox with a sleeping horse and the heroic hare's attempt to bamboozle a yooung girl into letting him feat from her father's garden. However, this book also shows that Harris far more than a white man who "stole" black folklore (as his detractors accuse). The character of Daddy Jack is among the most complex in the series and, having grown up around the Gullah culture near Charleston, SC myself, Harris very accurately records Daddy Jack's gullah stories and speech in these pages, which is a difficult task as this dialect does not easily lend itself to the written page. Those unfamiliar with gullah will find this a chore, but Harris includes a gullah glossary to help.
The tale-telling sessions with the above four characters and the little white boy as a witness is also an accurate testimony to a storytelling session among Black southern adults, perahps the best description of its kind until Zora Neale Hurston's insider look at this phenomenon MULES & MEN in 1935 (I say this having witnessed such scenes myself as a child). Harris himself was privy to such sessions during slavery, and it shows. One delightful moment occurs when Uncle Remus tells the gathering about a chicken hawk flying downward toward a chiken in a barnyard and Tildy excitedly interjects, "LOOK OUT, PULLETS!"
With all this to recommend it, the only reason I give it 4 stars is because this Penguin edition is minus the wonderful illustrations of Arthur B. Frost (of the aminals in the stories wearing overalls, smoking pipes, etc.). No volume of Uncle Remus lore is complete without these highly amusing drawings adding to the fun. This will also whet your appetite for Harris' other Remus collections (Told by Uncle Remus, Uncle Remus & The Little Boy, Uncle Remus & Br'er Rabbit, etc.). However, the other Harris books are VERY hard to find today. Fortunately, a complete anthology of "Remusology" exists in "The Complete Uncle Remus," which also includes the original delightful drawings from each book. I would highly recommend this after reading "Nights With Uncle Remus."
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Uncle Remus, the tar baby, br'er rabbit, br'er bear and the fox will always bring memories of my dad. He used to tell me these stories as I was growing up in the fifties. He even got me the little golden book version of the 'tar baby'. I have been looking for this book for so long, and I was so excited to find it here on . The most wonderful thing is that is a very old book (1800's) that belonged a a decendant of R. E. Lee. The book was written by someone who had lived on a plantation and who spent alot of his growing up years playing with the children of the slaves and listening to the stories and songs of the adults. When he was older he wrote them down and aren't we lucky he did. This is also on the list of books to be banned. Don't let this happen, it would be like losing a national treasure. We need books of this caliber for our children and grandchildren to read, dream about and learn the moral lessons they teach. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in folk takes, funny stories, etc.
these short stories are not the disney versions, the language can be a bit difficult to follow but i think it delivers the flavor of the old south better. my mom read me these as a child complete with different voices for each character and i sat with the same wonder as the little boy uncle rumus entertains. this is a piece of americana not to be missed. there is wisdom, there is fun, and i hope readers can get past the political correctness we are plagued with today and simply savor a simpler time.
Beautiful book. Leather bound with guilded embossment. Written in the old gullah language so it aint easy to read. Perfect for someone who appreciates old southern culture and literature. Good book to pass down through the family. Get it before its banned.
These are great stories and this book is a good source for them. I believe (and have had great success with) these tales should be told in your own dialect, and even the setting can be changed to fit your experience and the knowledge of your audience without doing them serious harm..
As written, the stories are not politically correct, but they are too good, and too much a part of our heritage - both black and white - to be discarded because Chandler's setting is offensive to a large segment of our population.
I have found that kids love these stories when I tell them the way I talk. No matter where you are from and how you speak, if you love the stories, your audience will too.
I was born in Texas during segregation and although this book is certainly not politically correct now and very difficult to read because of the vernacular, it reminds me of the stores and loving care that an elderly black man gave me while Dad talked to his grandson about doing work at my grandmother's home where we lived.
Once that I particularity remember I was sitting next to "Uncle" (unfortunately I never knew his name) on the porch of his little cabin the summer I that I turned 6. He listened to my every word as I expressed my excitement of starting school in the fall. He then said, "Little Mr. Lake (my dad was named Lake), get as much of this thing called education as you can; I don't know exactly what is as I didn't get any, but I know that with it you work from the neck up and without it you work from the neck down." Uncle may not have had an education, but he certainly was well endowed with wisdom and love.
I look back over these 74 years of my life with shame of the way we treated blacks in those earlier days. I can't change the past but I can hope for a day where a person is judged by who they are, not by their skin color, religion or financial status.
Most people today (sadly) think of Joel Chandler Harris' Uncle Remus/Br'er Rabbit tales as racist apologetics for slavery. A good read of this seldom-read book shows that this was far from the case.
This volume came on the heels of the better-known "Uncle Remus-His Songs and Sayings" which consisted of tales of the black sage Uncle Remus (based on a real slave storyteller named "Uncle" George Terrell) telling trickster tales of Br'er Rabbit. In this book, the concept is expanded. Uncle Remus is joined by Aunt Tempy, a gullah-speaking African slave named Daddy Jack, and a teenage-twentysomething black girl named Tildy, in relating the stories to the little white boy. Their personalities are expanded here, including a love story between the elderly Daddy Jack and the young Tildy. Uncle Remus even candidly discusses the racism of poor whites against blacks in one scene (note to "Song of the South" fans, he was referring to the Favors family, who were the villians in that film).
Although the nineteenth-century "Negro dialect" (once again) makes rough reading for modern readers, the results are well worth the effort. The stories are real knee-slappers, especially the tales of Brer Babbit tricking Brer Fox with a sleeping horse and the heroic hare's attempt to bamboozle a yooung girl into letting him feat from her father's garden. However, this book also shows that Harris far more than a white man who "stole" black folklore (as his detractors accuse). The character of Daddy Jack is among the most complex in the series and, having grown up around the Gullah culture near Charleston, SC myself, Harris very accurately records Daddy Jack's gullah stories and speech in these pages, which is a difficult task as this dialect does not easily lend itself to the written page. Those unfamiliar with gullah will find this a chore, but Harris includes a gullah glossary to help.
The tale-telling sessions with the above four characters and the little white boy as a witness is also an accurate testimony to a storytelling session among Black southern adults, perahps the best description of its kind until Zora Neale Hurston's insider look at this phenomenon MULES & MEN in 1935 (I say this having witnessed such scenes myself as a child). Harris himself was privy to such sessions during slavery, and it shows. One delightful moment occurs when Uncle Remus tells the gathering about a chicken hawk flying downward toward a chiken in a barnyard and Tildy excitedly interjects, "LOOK OUT, PULLETS!"
With all this to recommend it, the only reason I give it 4 stars is because this Penguin edition is minus the wonderful illustrations of Arthur B. Frost (of the aminals in the stories wearing overalls, smoking pipes, etc.). No volume of Uncle Remus lore is complete without these highly amusing drawings adding to the fun. This will also whet your appetite for Harris' other Remus collections (Told by Uncle Remus, Uncle Remus & The Little Boy, Uncle Remus & Br'er Rabbit, etc.). However, the other Harris books are VERY hard to find today. Fortunately, a complete anthology of "Remusology" exists in "The Complete Uncle Remus," which also includes the original delightful drawings from each book. I would highly recommend this after reading "Nights With Uncle Remus."
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