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| Name: |
Joel Chandler Harris | | Birth Date: |
1848 | | Death Date: |
July 3, 1908 | | Place of Birth: |
Eatonton, Georgia, United States | | Place of Death: |
Atlanta, Georgia, United States | | Nationality: |
American | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
writer |
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 Biography of Joel Chandler Harris
376 words, approx. 1 pages
 American writer Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908) used folklore, fiction, dialect, and other devices of local color to picture both black and white Georgians under slavery and Reconstruction. Joel Chandler Harris was born in Eatonton, Ga., the... summary from source:
 Biography of Joel Chandler Harris
10,885 words, approx. 36 pages
 In 1882, according to Mark Twain, a group of children who were invited to the New Orleans home of George Washington Cable to meet the newly famous author of "Brer Rabbit and the Tar-Baby" were doubly disappointed. Not only was Joel Chandler Harris too... summary from source:
Biography of Joel Chandler Harris
9,236 words, approx. 31 pages
Joel Chandler Harris , better known today as the talented Georgian folklorist and creator of Uncle Remus who recounted numerous tales of plantation life, was first and foremost a newspaper journalist. It has not been unusual for literary figures to...
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 Joel Chandler Harris Quotes
406 words, approx. 1 pages
Joel Chandler Harris ( December 9 , 1848 – July 3 , 1908 ) was an American journalist born in Eatonton , Georgia who wrote the Uncle Remus stories. Sourced Brer Fox, he lay low. Legends of the old Plantation (1886), "The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story"....
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Joel Chandler Harris Information
620 words, approx. 2 pages
Joel Chandler Harris (December 9,1848 – July 3, 1908) was an American journalist born in Eatonton, Georgia who wrote the Uncle Remus stories, including Uncle Remus; His Songs and His Sayings. The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. (1880), Nights with...
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 The New York Observer An Uncomfortable Character: Stepin Fetchit\'d5s Dead-End Role
10/23/2005: 956 words, approx. 3 pagesThere’s a letter from Stepin Fetchit in the John Ford papers at the Lilly Library. It’s handwritten, articulate, dignified, very desperate. He’s not asking for a handout, he’s asking for a job. The letter dates from the early 1950’s, when the shiftless, shuffling part that... summary from source:
The New York Observer An Uncomfortable Character: Stepin Fetchit's Dead-End Role
10/23/2005: 957 words, approx. 3 pagesThere’s a letter from Stepin Fetchit in the John Ford papers at the Lilly Library. It’s handwritten, articulate, dignified, very desperate. He’s not asking for a handout, he’s asking for a job. The letter dates from the early 1950’s, when the shiftless, shuffling part that...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by R. Bruce Bickley, Jr.
10,624 words, approx. 35 pages
An American educator and critic, Bickley is the author of Joel Chandler Harris (1978) and Joel Chandler Harris: A Reference Guide (1978) and the editor of Critical Essays on Joel Chandler Harris (1978). In the following excerpt, he surveys Harris's realistic short stories, published in collections between 1884 and 1902.
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Critical Essay by William Malone Baskerville
7,641 words, approx. 26 pages
In the following essay, which is usually considered the first substantial biographical and critical study of Harris, Baskerville provides a general appreciation of the author, whom he deems "the most sympathetic, the most original, the truest delineator" of African American life.
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Critical Essay by Robert Bone
7,379 words, approx. 25 pages
An American educator and critic, Bone is the author of The Negro Novel in America (1958) and Richard Wright (1969). In the following excerpt, he asserts that African American tales exemplified by Harris's Uncle Remus stories embody "the black slave's resistance to white power."
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