Joel Chandler Harris
Joel Chandler Harris (born December 8, 1848 in Eatonton , Georgia , † July 3, 1908 in Atlanta ) was an American journalist and writer from the state of Georgia.
Life
Harris was best known for his Uncle Remus sequel stories. The stories first appeared in the Atlanta Constitution newspaper in 1879 and quickly became popular after the official end of racial segregation due to their optimistic image of US “racial relations” . Furthermore, they were novel in their use of dialects and the type of their hero "Brother Rabbit" ("Brer Rabbit"), who always asserts himself against stronger opponents by means of cunning. Walt Disney filmed the stories in 1946 under the title Uncle Remus' Wunderland ( Song of the South ) as a musical with real film and cartoon sequences .
In addition, Harris wrote several novellist depictions of rural life in Georgia, which are also part of the local color fiction .
In 1905 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters .
Works
- Uncle Remus. His Songs and His Sayings. The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation , 1880 (German from Martin Boelitz : Master Lampes funny pranks and adventures , 1904)
- Nights with Uncle Remus , 1881/1882
- Uncle Remus and His Friends , 1892
- Uncle Remus and the Little Boy , 1905
Web links
- Literature by and about Joel Chandler Harris in the catalog of the German National Library
- Robert Roosevelt's Brer Rabbit Stories ( December 15, 2007 memento in the Internet Archive )
- Theodore Roosevelt on Brer Rabbit and his Uncle
- http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap5/harris.html
Individual evidence
- ^ Members: Joel Chandler Harris. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed April 2, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Harris, Joel Chandler |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American journalist and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 8, 1848 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Eatonton , Georgia , USA |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 3, 1908 |
| Place of death | Atlanta , Georgia , USA |