Uncle Remus

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fictional character literary character storyteller

Uncle Remus is a fictional African American storyteller created by Joel Chandler Harris, best known for narrating the Br'er Rabbit folktales drawn from African American oral tradition.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Uncle Remus canonical	4
Nights with Uncle Remus	1
Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings	1

Statements (46)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	fictional character ⓘ literary character ⓘ storyteller ⓘ
appearsIn	Daddy Jake, the Runaway ⓘ Uncle Remus self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Nights with Uncle Remus Joel Chandler Harris’ Uncle Remus stories ⓘ surface form: The Tar-Baby and Other Rhymes of Uncle Remus Joel Chandler Harris’ Uncle Remus stories ⓘ surface form: Uncle Remus and His Friends Joel Chandler Harris’ Uncle Remus stories ⓘ surface form: Uncle Remus stories Joel Chandler Harris’ Uncle Remus stories ⓘ surface form: Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings
associatedCharacter	Brer Bear ⓘ surface form: Br'er Bear Brer Fox ⓘ surface form: Br'er Fox Br'er Rabbit ⓘ Fat Man and Little Boy ⓘ surface form: The Little Boy
associatedWith	plantation tradition ⓘ
basedOn	African American oral tradition ⓘ
characteristic	elderly ⓘ rural ⓘ
controversialFor	racial stereotypes ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
creator	Joel Chandler Harris ⓘ
culturalContext	post-Civil War American South ⓘ
ethnicity	Black Americans ⓘ surface form: African American
firstPublisher	Joel Chandler Harris ⓘ
genre	children's literature ⓘ folklore ⓘ frame narrative ⓘ
hasAdaptation	Song of the South ⓘ
hasPart	animal trickster tales ⓘ
influencedBy	African American folktales ⓘ African folklore ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName	English ⓘ
literaryFunction	mediator of folk tradition ⓘ
narrates	Br'er Bear stories ⓘ Br'er Fox stories ⓘ Br'er Rabbit stories ⓘ
narrativeRole	frame narrator ⓘ
notableWork	The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story ⓘ surface form: Br'er Rabbit and the Tar-Baby How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp for Mr. Fox ⓘ
occupation	storyteller ⓘ
portrayedBy	James Baskett ⓘ
publicationMedium	books ⓘ newspaper columns ⓘ
publisher	Atlanta Constitution ⓘ surface form: The Atlanta Constitution
setting	Southern United States ⓘ surface form: American South
targetAudience	children ⓘ general readers ⓘ

Referenced by (6)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Jump! → basedOn → Uncle Remus ⓘ

Song of the South → mainCharacter → Uncle Remus ⓘ

Joel Chandler Harris → notableWork → Uncle Remus ⓘ

this entity surface form: Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings

Uncle Remus → appearsIn → Uncle Remus self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Nights with Uncle Remus

Br'er Rabbit → narratedByCharacter → Uncle Remus ⓘ

Joel Chandler Harris’ Uncle Remus stories → mainCharacter → Uncle Remus ⓘ