Author: Joel Chandler Harris
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit
Author: Joel Chandler Harris
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
General catalogue of printed books
Author: British museum. Dept. of printed books
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Classic Tales of Brer Rabbit
Author: Don Daily
Publisher: Running Press Kids
ISBN: 9780762417124
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Follow the adventures of crafty B'rer Rabbit and his friends in seven playful folktales with roots in traditional African stories. Told and retold for hundreds of years, this young-reader's version of these folktales retains the original humor and wisdom, com- plemented by spirited, full-color illustrations by Don Daily.
Publisher: Running Press Kids
ISBN: 9780762417124
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Follow the adventures of crafty B'rer Rabbit and his friends in seven playful folktales with roots in traditional African stories. Told and retold for hundreds of years, this young-reader's version of these folktales retains the original humor and wisdom, com- plemented by spirited, full-color illustrations by Don Daily.
The English Catalogue of Books
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ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 984
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 984
Book Description
American Trickster
Author: Emily Zobel Marshall
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1783481110
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
Our fascination with the trickster figure, whose presence is global, stems from our desire to break free from the tightly regimented structures of our societies. Condemned to conform to laws and rules imposed by governments, communities, social groups and family bonds, we revel in the fantasy of the trickster whose energy and cunning knows no bounds and for whom nothing is sacred. One such trickster is Brer Rabbit, who was introduced to North America through the folktales of enslaved Africans. On the plantations, Brer Rabbit, like Anansi in the Caribbean, functioned as a resistance figure for the enslaved whose trickery was aimed at undermining and challenging the plantation regime. Yet as Brer Rabbit tales moved from the oral tradition to the printed page in the late nineteenth-century, the trickster was emptied of his potentially powerful symbolism by white American collectors, authors and folklorists in their attempt to create a nostalgic fantasy of the plantation past. American Trickster offers readers a unique insight into the cultural significance of the Brer Rabbit trickster figure, from his African roots and through to his influence on contemporary culture. Exploring the changing portrayals of the trickster figure through a wealth of cultural forms including folktales, advertising, fiction and films the book scrutinises the profound tensions between the perpetuation of damaging racial stereotypes and the need to keep African-American folk traditions alive. Emily Zobel Marshall argues that Brer Rabbit was eventually reclaimed by twentieth-century African-American novelists whose protagonists ‘trick’ their way out of limiting stereotypes, break down social and cultural boundaries and offer readers practical and psychological methods for challenging the traumatic legacies of slavery and racism.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1783481110
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
Our fascination with the trickster figure, whose presence is global, stems from our desire to break free from the tightly regimented structures of our societies. Condemned to conform to laws and rules imposed by governments, communities, social groups and family bonds, we revel in the fantasy of the trickster whose energy and cunning knows no bounds and for whom nothing is sacred. One such trickster is Brer Rabbit, who was introduced to North America through the folktales of enslaved Africans. On the plantations, Brer Rabbit, like Anansi in the Caribbean, functioned as a resistance figure for the enslaved whose trickery was aimed at undermining and challenging the plantation regime. Yet as Brer Rabbit tales moved from the oral tradition to the printed page in the late nineteenth-century, the trickster was emptied of his potentially powerful symbolism by white American collectors, authors and folklorists in their attempt to create a nostalgic fantasy of the plantation past. American Trickster offers readers a unique insight into the cultural significance of the Brer Rabbit trickster figure, from his African roots and through to his influence on contemporary culture. Exploring the changing portrayals of the trickster figure through a wealth of cultural forms including folktales, advertising, fiction and films the book scrutinises the profound tensions between the perpetuation of damaging racial stereotypes and the need to keep African-American folk traditions alive. Emily Zobel Marshall argues that Brer Rabbit was eventually reclaimed by twentieth-century African-American novelists whose protagonists ‘trick’ their way out of limiting stereotypes, break down social and cultural boundaries and offer readers practical and psychological methods for challenging the traumatic legacies of slavery and racism.
General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1955
Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1290
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1290
Book Description
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1362
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1362
Book Description
Nights with Uncle Remus
Author: Joel Chandler Harris
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American men
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Drafts, autograph manuscript, corrected, of the introduction and chapters 37 and 39 through 71.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American men
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Drafts, autograph manuscript, corrected, of the introduction and chapters 37 and 39 through 71.
Whitaker's Cumulative Book List
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description