Slavery's Bestiary: Joel Chandler Harris's Uncle Remus Tales.
The critical reception of Joel Chandler Harris's Uncle Remus Tales has often interpreted these animal fables as allegories of American slavery. Such an approach, however, risks what Steve Baker calls the ''denial of the animal'', which displaces animal signifiers onto human signifieds. Through readi...
| Publicado en: | Paragraph Vol. 34; no. 1; pp. 30 - 48 |
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| Formato: | Literary Criticism |
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Edinburgh University Press
Mar2011
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