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	New Georgia Encyclopedia: Uncle Remus Tales
		The Uncle Remus tales are African American trickster stories about the exploits of Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox, and other "creeturs" that were recreated in fl regional dialect by Joel Chandler Harris.
		Harris's fictionalized storyteller, Uncle Remus, was a "human syndicate" whom he had admittedly "walloped together" from several fl storytellers he had met while working from 1862 to 1866 as a printing compositor on Joseph Addison Turner's Turnwold Plantation, outside Eatonton, in Putnam County.
		Yet at the same time, Uncle Remus has been educating entire generations of readers—young and old, white, fl, brown, red, and yellow—about the destructive power plays and status struggles among members of the animal kingdom, who clearly represent socially and ethnically different, jealous, contentious, and even openly warring members of the human race itself.
	www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Article.jsp?id=h-705 (1027 words)

	Song of the South.net - The Movie: Background
		Uncle Remus was a character created by a man named Joel Chandler Harris who initially began using this fictitious character in the Atlanta Constitution newspaper in 1876.
		The stories Uncle Remus told were all based upon a composite of African-American storytellers he had known and grown up with as a child.
		Harris believed without a doubt that some of "Uncle Remus'" actions, such as making cross marks in the sand and spitting in them, are the survival of some sort of obeisance in recognition of the presence of The Rabbit (Brer Rabbit), allegedly a great central figure and wonder-worker in African mythology.
	www.songofthesouth.net /movie/background/index.html (1021 words)

	Uncle Remus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Uncle Remus was a fictional character, the title character and fictional narrator of a collection of African American folktales adapted and compiled by Joel Chandler Harris, published in book form from 1881.
		Uncle Remus is a kindly old slave who serves as a storytelling device, passing on the folktales to white children gathered around him.
		The term "uncle" was a patronizing, familiar and often racist title reserved by whites for elderly fl men in the South, which is considered, by some, pejorative and offensive.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Uncle_Remus (744 words)

	That's What Uncle Remus Say!
		Uncle Remus is the incarnation of love and compassion, seemingly for all living creatures, much like Saint Francis of Assisi was.
		And after Uncle Remus has saved face for almost everyone in the film, except for himself, he declares in utmost bliss: "Things are lookin' mighty satisfactual".
		It is Uncle Remus, through his perpetual kindheartedness and love for children, who comforts the crying Ginny after her naughty brothers push her in the mud while on her way to Johnny's birthday party.
	www.linguatics.com /uncleremus.htm (1598 words)

	Special Collections: Virtual Reading Room: John "Uncle Remus" Fulton
		When Cupid put the IV Club to rout, Remus became the servant of Dr. Dudley, and it was in this capacity that he stayed on at the University and found his place among university men.
		Remus took his abode in the little room which he still occupies in the basement of Wesley Hall, beneath Dr. Dudley's suite above, and when the old negro's duties of entertaining young people did not press upon him, he gave somewhat of his time to looking after Dr. Dudley's business.
		When Vandy men started giving Remus their photographs back a third of a century ago, they did not know that they were beginning a custom that was going to all but outgrow Remus himself.
	www.library.vanderbilt.edu /speccol/vrr/remus.shtml (877 words)

	Remus
		Remus is the prime planet of dilithium mining and as such many Remusuns are forced into slave labour.
		Romulus and Remus, founders of Rome in Roman mythology, were the supposed sons of the god Mars and the priestess Rhea Silvia.
		Romulus and Remus, however, were found by Tiberinus and nursed by a female wolf underneath a fig tree, according to the myth, and were able to survive.
	www.websters-dictionary-online.net /Re/Remus.html (1625 words)

	ARF: Notes and Comments: APOSTROPHE('): Uncle Remus
		Uncle Remus was a wise, old slave who told folk tales about Bre'r Rabbit, Bre'r Fox, and Bre'r Bear.
		Uncle Remus was a character created by the American author Joel Chandler Harris.
		In this and later stories, Uncle Remus, a wise old fl man, tells animal stories to a little boy, the son of a plantation owner, and through these stories he interweaves his philosophy of the world about him.
	www.arf.ru /Notes/Apostro/uncler.html (1176 words)

	Uncle Remus
		Uncle Remus describes that reconstruction in his "A Story of the War," and I may as well add here for the benefit of the curious that that story is almost literally true.
		The next moment Uncle Remus was elbowing his way unceremoniously through the crowd, and in a very short time, seated in the carriage driven by the old man, Miss Huntington was whirling through the streets of Atlanta in the direction of her brother's home.
		Uncle Remus was accustomed to make this threat several times a day, but upon this occasion it seemed to remind Mr.
	etext.lib.virginia.edu /railton/enam481c/harris.html (2980 words)

	In search of Uncle Remus \| AccessAtlanta
		A life-size figure of Uncle Remus (right), displayed at the Fox Theatre during the premiere of "Song of the South," now sits in the attic at the Wren's Nest.
		His Uncle Remus tales — in which a former slave entertains a white boy with African fables about conniving critters — seemed to have earned Harris a permanent place in the canon of American literature.
		Harris wasn't Remus, of course, but he so identified with his alter ego that his career could be regarded as one of the first examples of blue-eyed soul in American culture.
	www.accessatlanta.com /arts/content/movies/stories/2006/11/08/1112ARRemus.html (2429 words)

	Uncle Remus (Myth-Folklore Online)
		This Uncle Remus character is used by Harris as a kind of "fl-face" in print, something like a literary minstrel show.
		Because Uncle Remus is a character with whom fls and white are uneasy today, the tales themselves have become tainted in some minds.
		As for Uncle Remus today, try out this Frank Zappa lyric; it points to the many of the hard truths about race relations in America today, using the character of Uncle Remus as a way to comment on the struggles of the civil rights movement in the 20th century.
	www.mythfolklore.net /3043mythfolklore/reading/remus/background.htm (1802 words)

	Selected Text Page-Uncle Remus
		Readers of Harris' Uncle Remus folk tales might be tempted to assume, as we were early in our research for this project, that the author had some kind of secret racial egalitarian agenda.
		Many of the stories he relates through Remus are clearly subversive of American apartheid's hierarchies.
		What Harris, a man who despite his anthropological efforts subscribed to most of his culture's white-superiority beliefs, failed to see is that the tales he recorded for posterity undermined the very culture he worked to stimulate.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~UG97/remus/selections.html (268 words)

	Schulers Books (Uncle Remus - 1/33)
		In the first of his series, a tortoise falls from a tree upon the head of a jaguar and kills him; in one of Uncle Remus's stories, the terrapin falls from a shelf in Miss Meadows's house and stuns the fox, so that the latter fails to catch the rabbit.
		One of the most characteristic of Uncle Remus's stories is that in which the rabbit proves to Miss Meadows and the girls that the fox is his riding-horse.
		Smith, the cotia is very thirsty, and, seeing a man coming with a jar on his head, lies down in the road in front of him, and repeats this until the man puts down his jar to go back after all the dead cotias he has seen.
	www.schulers.com /books/jo/u/Uncle_Remus (1374 words)

	Amazon.ca: Tales Of Uncle Remus: Books: Julius Lester,Jerry Pinkney
		Even more importantly, he uses the sharp, witty Uncle Remus who narrated the original folktales, and not the more servile character from the opening and closing segments who many found offensive.
		Uncle Remus spins a whimsicle yarn and uses old time forgotten vinacular that titilates the imagination to heights that brings a giggle to the staunches personality.
		I loved it when she would mimick Uncle Remus' laugh because her belly would jiggle and make me wiggle and giggle (can you tell the little child in me has been awakened?).
	www.amazon.ca /Tales-Uncle-Remus-Julius-Lester/dp/0141303476 (1109 words)

	OldUncleRemus's Xanga Site
		Uncle Remus pities all ya negras who liks to have da freedom and wot not.
		This body-servant was a very fine specimen of the average coast negro-sleek, well-conditioned, and consequential-disposed to regard with undisguised contempt every-thing and everybody not indigenous to the rice-growing region—and he paraded around the streets with quite a curious and critical air.
		HEN “Miss Sally’s” little boy went to Uncle Remus the next night to hear the conclusion of the adventure in which the Rabbit made a riding-horse of the Fox to the great enjoyment and gratification of Miss Meadows and the girls, he found the old man in a bad humor.
	www.xanga.com /OldUncleRemus (2631 words)

	LibriVox » Uncle Remus, by Joel Chandler Harris
		Later, he published his version of these tales in a series of stories printed in the “Atlanta Constitution.” The tales of, and by, Harris’ chief character Uncle Remus, an old fl man scrabbling to make his living in the post-Civil War South, were extremely popular and widely read.
		While this is not a book that will pass a current political correctness test, due to its use of labels for fl folks which have gone out of polite conversation, Uncle Remus is a largely sympathetic look at post-war plantation life.
		Uncle Remus himself is a warm, folksy man of good humor and dry wit, and after finishing his animal stories, the remaining sayings and tales are a moment of history frozen in amber.
	librivox.org /uncle-remus-by-joel-chandler-harris (622 words)

	Uncle Remus Stories - Sidebar - MSN Encarta
		American writer Joel Chandler Harris was one of the first authors to accurately capture African American vernacular English in print.
		His Uncle Remus series (1880-1906), reportedly based on stories he heard as a boy in Georgia, is considered an important collection of fl American folklore.
		In the stories, Uncle Remus, a former slave working as a servant to a Southern white family, tells tales to the young son of the family to keep him entertained at night.
	encarta.msn.com /sidebar_762504452/Uncle_Remus_Stories.html (124 words)

	Fearless READER FeatureLine #3: "Senator Helms Meets Uncle Remus"
		He was proud, but nervous because Uncle Remus regarded him with an increasingly hostile frown as the tape played on.
		Remus’ grip was tightening and Jesse found it a little hard to breathe.
		Remus’ heavy breathing seemed to fill up the whole room until he spoke again, his voice hissing.
	www.fearlessbooks.com /fsHelmsRemus.htm (2075 words)

	Biography of Joel Chandler Harris
		Through his work with the Uncle Remus tales, he would introduce Ame ricans to the basic patterns and rhythms of southern African-American speech.
		As the titles suggest, relationships are important; they develop between the wide-eyed audience (likened to a little white boy from the main plantation household) and the narrator who acts as "best friend"-whiling away the hours w ith a seemingly endless supply of tales.
		The lasting impression of the Remus stories on readers of all ages and from many countries (there were translations into twenty-seven languages) stems from the force of their slave lore.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~UG97/remus/bio.html (446 words)

	Rehabilitating Uncle Remus (And His House in Atlanta) - New York Times
		The Wren's Nest, the ocher-colored home of Joel Chandler Harris and his famous storyteller, Uncle Remus, has long been shunned by the fl neighborhood that surrounds it.
		But some people would rather the tales of Uncle Remus, and the ebony Uncle Remus figurine stashed in the attic, stay where they are.
		''At the end of the day, particularly the Uncle Remus figure is very problematic,'' said William Jelani Cobb, an associate professor of history at Spelman College, the historically fl women's college in Atlanta.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9A06E4DE143EF932A35754C0A9619C8B63 (624 words)

	96.03.02: Using Film and Literature to Examine Uncle Remus: A Comparison and Analysis of the Film—Song Of The South
		In the film, Uncle Remus is a character who is supposed to represent an Old South Negro or the George Terrell of Harris’s time.
		The Uncle Remus character has the ability to teach lessons to the boy through his tales yet uses these tales to improve his master/slave relationship.
		An examination of the ’creolized’ variety of southern speech—the middle Georgia dialect that Harris wrote the tales of Uncle Remus, and the representation of a popular dialect in the southern states.
	www.yale.edu /ynhti/curriculum/units/1996/3/96.03.02.x.html (5395 words)

	AudioBooksForFree.com
		UNCLE REMUS 41 Fox and Quills (by F H Pritchard) *
		UNCLE REMUS 40 Tarrypin and Buzzard (by F H Pritchard) *
		UNCLE REMUS 15 Rabbit and Butter (by F H Pritchard) *
	www.audiobooksforfree.com /screen_main.asp (1203 words)

	Biography of Joel Chandler Harris
		As the titles suggest, relationships are important; they develop between the wide-eyed audience (likened to a little white boy from the main plantation household) and the narrator who acts as "best friend"-whiling away the hours with a seemingly endless supply of tales.
		In this way, Uncle Remus goes back in time to African models, as well as to the animal tales of Aesop and Chaucer.
		It was under the guidance of Captain Evan P. Howell, of The Atlanta Constitution, that he began to publish the famous stories of Uncle Remus.
	www.uncleremus.com /bio.html (956 words)

	1925 dixie book TAR BABY PLANTATION slavery UNCLE REMUS - (eBay item 120163757875 end time Sep-29-07 21:00:00 PDT)
		Uncle Remus, the title character and fictional narrator of these stories, is a kindly old slave who serves as a storytelling device passing on the folktales to the white children gathered around him.
		The term "uncle" was a patronizing, familiar and an often politically incorrect title reserved by whites for elderly fl men in the South.
		Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings—The Folklore of the Old Plantation, first published by Appleton in November 1880.
	cgi.ebay.com /1925-dixie-book-TAR-BABY-PLANTATION-slavery-UNCLE-REMUS_W0QQitemZ120163757875QQihZ002QQcategoryZ29223QQcmdZViewItem (700 words)

	Uncle Remus, folktales and personal freedom, Confederate magnets, Silent Sam UNC
		The book that the film is based on is called Uncle Remus, His Songs and Sayings, written by Joel Chandler Harris in the aftermath of the War Between the States.
		All of this was made acceptable to the white Southern audiences of the 1870's and the 1940's by the fact that while Brer Rabbit is often violent and hateful, his narrator, Uncle Remus the slave, is always loving, kind and docile.
		In reconstruction America, the closest analogy to slavery was children surrounded by an adult world of unrelenting authority, thus the popularity of Uncle Remus among white children.
	www.bannedfilms.com (999 words)

	Uncle Remus: The Complete Tales - Julius Lester - Pearson Rewards
		Brer Rabbit is causing trouble again for his fellow creatures Brer Fox, Brer Wolf, and the rest--this time in an omnibus edition that brings together all the stories from Tales of Uncle Remus, More Tales of Uncle Remus, Further Tales of Uncle Remus, and Last Tales of Uncle Remus.
		The Uncle Remus tales, originally written down by Joel Chandler Harris, were first published over a hundred years ago, and serve as the largest collection of African-American folklore.
		In this four-book series, Julius Lester masterfully retains the flavor of the tales, while dropping the heavy dialect of the Harris originals and adding contemporary language and references-- ensuring that the stories will be understood and enjoyed by new generations of readers.
	pearsonrewards.com /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780803724518,00.html (167 words)

	The Uncle Remus Minisite (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The tales of Uncle Remus were a collection of stories written by a man named Joel Chandler Harris back in the 1800's.
		Uncle Remus narrates the stories as he tells them to a young lad, telling each tale in a very strong dialect.
		Uncle Remus' tales are still told today by professional folktellers, and some of the stories were even seen animated for Disney's "Song of the South." The stories are timeless tales of wit and ingenuity that proved to be an inspiring benchmark for future storytellers everywhere.
	www.arches.uga.edu /~xcbhardi/project2.html (291 words)

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