Uncle Remus
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Uncle Remus (Eng. "Uncle Remus") is the title character and the fictional narrator of a collection of African-American folk tales (folktales) , predominantly of verses and stories about fictional animal characters, by the American journalist, author and folklorist Joel Chandler Harris ( 1845–1908) in Atlanta ( Georgia ) of the "post- Reconstruction " period and compiled, and were first published in book form in 1881 . A total of seven Uncle Remus books were published by him. For his stories, the author used the fables , fairy tales and myths of African , Indian and European peoples. Robert Roosevelt had previously published Brer Rabbit stories. At the center of popular Uncle Remus tales are characters like the trickster Brer Rabbit, Brer Wolf, Brer Fox, Little Mister Cricket, the old Aunt Mammy-Bammy-Big-Money, and Daddy Jack from the “ Low Country " and many others.
The stories reflect the world of the old plantations of the American South ( Deep South ): of slaves who can neither write nor read, but are excellent narrators of stories that are passed on from father to son.
A special feature of the stories is the phonetically reproduced way of speaking, which tried to capture the language of the slaves in their unadulterated local dialect.
The Uncle Remus stories are among the masterpieces of American literature . They have been translated into numerous languages.
Well-known illustrations for the stories come from the painter AB Frost.
The Walt Disney musical film Song of the South (German under the title: Uncle Remus' Wunderland ) from 1946, in which real actors and cartoon characters appear together, is based on the Uncle Remus stories. Uncle Remus is played by James Baskett in it. A famous song from it is Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah .
A cartoon inspired by the stories, The Adventures of Brother Rabbit , was released in 2006 in the United States .
Uncle Remus books
- Uncle Remus: his songs and his sayings
- Uncle Remus: His Songs & His Sayings with illustrations by Arthur Burdette Frost, 1896
- Nights With Uncle Remus: Myths & Legends of the Old Plantation with illustrations by Frederick Stuart Church & William Holbrook Beard, 1883
- Daddy Jake, the Runaway: & Short Stories Told After Dark with illustrations by Edward Windsor Kemble, 1889
- Uncle Remus & His Friends: Old Plantation Stories, Songs, & Ballads with Sketches of Negro Character with illustrations by Arthur Burdette Frost, 1892
- Told by Uncle Remus: New Stories of the Old Plantation with illustrations by Arthur Burdette Frost & J Condé and line drawings after half-tones by Frank Verbeck, 1905
- Uncle Remus & Brer Rabbit with illustrations by J Condé, 1907
- Uncle Remus & the Little Boy with illustrations by J Condé, 1910
- Uncle Remus Returns with illustrations by Arthur Burdette Frost & J Condé, 1918
- Seven Tales of Uncle Remus, 1948
Translations (selection)
- Harris, Joel Chandler & Janecek, Ota (illustrations): Uncle Remus tells. Publishing house Werner Dausien 1965 Hanau
- Harris, Joel Chandler and Hans Petersen: Stories from Uncle Remus. Berlin, children's book publisher, 1968.
References and footnotes
- ↑ cf. Uncle Tom & Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly (Uncle Tom's Hut or From the Life of the Negro Slaves)
- ↑ See also Redeemers (English).
- ^ Digitized version of the 1881 edition
- ↑ cf. Robert Roosevelt's Brer Rabbit Stories ( December 15, 2007 memento on the Internet Archive ) & Theodore Roosevelt on Brer Rabbit and his Uncle
- ↑ See also Meister Lampe , The story of Peter Hase , etc.
- ↑ A list of the characters in the Uncle Remus stories provides the English language Wikipedia: List of Uncle Remus characters . - See also the list of topics there (Uncle Remus)
- ↑ Sound sample at youtube.com
- ^ National Library of Scotland: Uncle Remus: his songs and his sayings: the folk-lore of the old plantation . New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1881 ( archive.org [accessed October 26, 2019]).
- ^ University of California: Daddy Jake the Runaway: And Short Stories Told After Dark . Century, 1889 ( archive.org [accessed October 26, 2019]).
- ^ Robarts - University of Toronto: Uncle Remus and his friends; old plantation stories, songs, and ballads, with sketches of Negro character. Illustrated by AB Frost . Boston Houghton, Mifflin, 1892 ( archive.org [accessed October 26, 2019]).
- ^ University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Information and Library Science Library: Told by Uncle Remus: new stories of the old plantation . New York: McKinlay, Stone & Mackenzie, 1905 ( archive.org [accessed October 26, 2019]).
literature
- Florence E. Baer: Sources and Analogues of the Uncle Remus Tales. 1980 ( FFC 228)
- Low Country Gullah Culture, Special Resource Study: Environmental Impact Statement. National Park Service. 2003 ( partial online view )
