Uncle Remus : his songs and his sayings : the folk-lore of the old plantation

Joel Chandler Harris

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» ^^^'d> o^ ~X hJ A^^/r. ^"ainted portrait of the Southern slave-owner, and defended him. A number of the plantation legends originally appeared — in tlie columns of a daily newspaper "The Atlanta Con- " stitution —and in that shape they attracted the attention gentlemen who were kind enough to suggestof various that they would prove to be valuable contributions to myth- but fair to say that ethnological considera-literature. It is tions formed no part of the undertaking which has resulted of this volume. Professorin the publication J. W. Powell, of the Smithsonian Institution, who is engaged in an in- vestigation mythology of the Xorth American In-of the INTRODUCTION. 5 informs me that some of Uucle Kemus's storiesdians, appear in a number of different languages, and in various modified Indiansforms, among the ; and he is of the opinion that they are borrowed by the negroes from the red-men. But this, to say the least, is extremely doubtful, since another "investigator (]\Ir. Herbert H. Smith, author of Brazil and the Amazons") has met with some of these stories tribes of South American Indians, and one in par-among ticular he has traced to India, and as far east as Siam. Mr. has been kind enough proof-sheets ofSmith to send me the his chapter on "The Myths and Folk-Lore of the Amazo- nian Indians," in which he reproduces some of the stories gathered exploring the Amazons.

Sujets

• African American
• Animals

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• Publié par: les_archives_du_savoir
• Nombre de lectures: 3
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 11 Mo

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