The tar baby : a global history /
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, in...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2017]
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| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | xv, 261 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780691172637 0691172633 |