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OverviewJoel Chandler Harris was born in Eatonton, Georgia, the illegitimate son of Mary Harris. At 13 Harris became an apprentice printer on The Countryman, a plantation newspaper edited and published by Joseph Addison Turner, a highly literate planter, lawyer, and writer. Harris then worked on newspapers in several Southern cities. In 1876 Harris began a twenty-four-year association with the Atlanta Constitution. He used folklore, fiction, dialect, and other devices of local color to picture both black and white Georgians under slavery and Reconstruction. Best known as the creator of Uncle Remus, and Remus's creation Brer Rabbit, in other fictional works Harris enlarged his portrayal of Southerners to include aristocrats, members of the middle class, mountaineers, and poor white farmers. Mingo, and Other Sketches in Black and White is a collection of the latter tales. Harris disowned regionalism in art, saying My idea is that truth is more important than sectionalism, and that literature that can be labeled Northern, Southern, Western, or Eastern, is not worth labeling at all, yet his writings reflected the region and he was a truly Southern voice in literature. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Joel Chandler HarrisPublisher: General Books Imprint: General Books Dimensions: Width: 22.90cm , Height: 0.50cm , Length: 15.20cm Weight: 0.132kg ISBN: 9781151422378ISBN 10: 1151422371 Pages: 82 Publication Date: 24 December 2009 Audience: Children/juvenile , Children / Juvenile Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |