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Bookmark or Share- Beatrix Potter’s Peter Rabbit story originated in African ...Beatrix Potter. This article is more than 10 months old. Beatrix Potter’s Peter Rabbit story originated in African folktales, expert argues. The unacknowledged debt Potter owed to the Brer Rabbit...
- Uncle Remus Tales - New Georgia EncyclopediaClearly, Brer Rabbit is the enslaved African American’s alter ego and trickster-hero, and the so-called stronger animals represent the white enslavers. On deeper rhetorical, symbolical, and archetypal levels, Uncle Remus’s role is to initiate his young white listener into the complex realities of adult life.
- Br'er Rabbit - WikipediaBr'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.
- Brer Rabbit - Oxford ReferenceQuick Reference. Is the archetypal hero-trickster character from African American oral literature. While Brer Rabbit got much exposure in Joel Chandler Harris's Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings (1881), folklorists and literature scholars are well aware of the rich cycle of tales that circulate around this tricky and cunning figure.
- Brer Rabbit | African-American, Trickster, Tales | BritannicaBrer Rabbit, trickster figure originating in African folklore and transmitted by African slaves to the New World, where it acquired attributes of similar native American tricksters (see trickster tale); Brer, or Brother, Rabbit was popularized in the United States in the stories of Joel Chandler.
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