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The tar baby : a global history / Bryan Wagner.
LIBRA GR111.A47 W34 2017
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wagner, Bryan.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Harris, Joel Chandler, 1848-1908--Criticism and interpretation.
- Harris, Joel Chandler.
- Harris, Joel Chandler, 1848-1908. Brer Rabbit and the wonderful tar baby.
- Harris, Joel Chandler, 1848-1908.
- Animals--Folklore.
- Animals.
- Cross-cultural studies.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 261 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- Perhaps the best-known version of the tar baby story was published in 1880 by Joel Chandler Harris in Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings, and popularized in Song of the South, the 1946 Disney movie. Other versions of the story, however, have surfaced in many other places throughout the world, including Nigeria, Brazil, Corsica, Jamaica, India, and the Philippines. The Tar Baby offers a fresh analysis of this deceptively simple story about a fox, a rabbit, and a doll made of tar and turpentine, tracing its history and its connections to slavery, colonialism, and global trade.
- Contents:
- Ideas of culture
- States of nature
- Sticking fast
- Say my name
- The briar patch
- Epilogue
- Twelve examples.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1953 Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780691172637
- 0691172633
- OCLC:
- 958799654
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