Reviews
"Perceptive and humane herself, no better interpreter of Uncle Remus as folklorist could possibly be found than Dr. Stella Brewer Brookes. Her systematic analysis of the material as Trickster Tales, Myths, Proverbs, Sayings, and Folksong serves to enhance the essential cleverness and poignancy of Harris' renderings of these plantation tales. Her book will bring a new appreciation of Harris to the general reading public: it should be in every library."
—A. H. Gayton, Former President of the American Folklore Society
Description
Stella Brewer Brookes’s study of the life and work of Joel Chandler Harris was published in 1950. Brookes examines how Harris drew on his extensive knowledge of African American folklore and culture to create the characters in his work. Brookes classifies the Uncle Remus books under seven major categories: trickster tales, other “creeturs,” myths, supernatural tales, proverbs, dialect, and songs.
