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Br'er Rabbit (/ ˈ b r ɛər / BRAIR; an abbreviation of Brother Rabbit, also spelled Brer Rabbit) is a central figure in an oral tradition passed down by African-Americans of the Southern United States and African descendants in the Caribbean, notably Afro-Bahamians and Turks and Caicos Islanders.
Br'er Rabbit and the Tar-Baby, drawing by E. W. Kemble from "The Tar-Baby", by Joel Chandler Harris, 1904. The Tar-Baby is the second of the Uncle Remus stories published in 1881; it is about a doll made of tar and turpentine used by the villainous Br'er Fox to entrap Br'er Rabbit. The more that Br'er Rabbit fights the Tar-Baby, the more ...
The stories were adapted into comics form twice in the early 1900s. In 1902, artist Jean Mohr adapted the Uncle Remus stories into a two-page comic story titled Ole Br'er Rabbit for The North American. [5] The McClure Newspaper Syndicate also released a Br'er Rabbit Sunday strip drawn by J.M. Condé from June 24 to October 7, 1906. [6]
Uncle Remus is a compilation of Br'er Rabbit storytellers whom Harris had encountered during his time at the Turnwold Plantation. Harris said that the use of the Black dialect was an effort to add to the effect of the stories and to allow the stories to retain their authenticity. [2] The genre of stories is the trickster tale. At the time of ...
Brer Rabbit Has Trouble with the Moon (new version of The Rabbit and the Moon)/ Brer Rabbit Causes Brer Fox to Lose His Hide (sequel to How Mr. Lion Lost His Wool, new version of Brother Lion Has a Spell of Sickness)/ How Brer Rabbit Saved Brer B'ar's Life/ Uncle Remus Sings a Song/ How Brer Rabbit Raised the Dust (rhyming version of How Mr ...
The story was used in the movie Song of the South, along with "The Tar Baby" and "The Laughing Place", but with one difference; Brer Rabbit, instead of intending to steal some of Brer Fox's peanut crop, decided to run away, fed up with life at his briar patch, and while running away he happens to get caught in a snare trap set by Brer Fox, right at the edge of a cornfield.