Uncle Remus

by Joel Chandler Harris · 1881

The trickster tales of Br'er Rabbit outwitting Br'er Fox, framed as told by an old plantation storyteller. Harris's influential, and now controversial, collection of African American folklore.

Books that mention Uncle Remus (3)

• Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain: “to console them, the book was brought, that they might hear Uncle Remus's Tar-Baby story from the lips of Uncle Remus himself”
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker: “One day she started in on an “Uncle Remus” tale only to discover Tashi had the original version of it!”
• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn: “Joel Chandler Harris, in his Uncle Remus stories, would have Uncle Remus say...”