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/ˈəŋkəl rˈiməs/ Listen

Uncle Remus

noun

The fictional storyteller of tales written in the Black Vernacular and set in the South; the tales were first collected and published in book form in 1880.

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"Uncle Remus" Quotes from Famous Books

... limited the literature of their section should have been the subjects of a little body of narrative which bids fair to outlast all that local color hit upon in the South. Joel Chandler Harris is not, strictly speaking, a contemporary, but Uncle Remus is contemporary and perennial. His stories are grounded in the universal traits of simple souls; they are also the whimsical, incidental mirror of a particular race during a significant—though now extinct—phase of its career. They are at once as ancient and ...

— Contemporary American Novelists (1900-1920) • Carl Van Doren

... Again Uncle Remus enters the fields of childhood, and leads another little boy to that non-locatable land called "Brer Rabbit's Laughing Place," and again the quaint animals spring into active life and play their parts, for the edification of ...

— The Scarlet Feather • Houghton Townley

... the hour some ordinary old uneducated Negro tell those inimitable animal stories, brought to literary existence in "Uncle Remus," with such quaint humor, delicious conceit and masterly delineation of plot, character and incident that nothing but the conventional rating of Aesop's Fables could put them in the same class. Then, there are more Negro inventors than the world supposes. ...

— The Negro Problem • Booker T. Washington, et al.

Words linked to "Uncle Remus" : fictional character, fictitious character, character