Uncle Remus, Joel Chandler Harris, and the South, Part I

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By the end of the nineteenth century, Joel Chandler Harris's Uncle Remus folktales were famous not only in the South, but throughout the United States. For much of the last century, however, they have been sharply critiqued for their presentation of antebellum plantation life. But who was Joel Chandler Harris? In this episode, Elizabeth dives into his story and the people from whom he learned these tales.

​Podcaster: Elizabeth

Further Reading

R. Bickley, "Joel Chandler Harris." New Georgia Encyclopedia, last modified Dec 2, 2019. 

Robert Cochran,  “Black Father: The Subversive Achievement of Joel Chandler Harris,” African American Review 38, no. 1 (2004): 21–34. 

Joel Chandler Harris, On the Plantation: A Story of a Georgia Boy's Adventures During the War (New York: Appleton, 1892). 

Carl R. Osthaus, Partisans of the Southern Press: Editorial Spokesmen of the Nineteenth Century (University Press of Kentucky, 2014).

Jennifer Ritterhouse, “Reading, Intimacy, and the Role of Uncle Remus in White Southern Social Memory,” The Journal of Southern History 69, no. 3 (2003): 585–622. 

​Music: "Evening Melodrama" by Kevin Macleod (www.incompetech.com)