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The tar baby : a global history
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| 자료유형 | 단행본 |
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| 서명/저자사항 | The tar baby : a global history/ Bryan Wagner. |
| 개인저자 | Wagner, Bryan,author. |
| 발행사항 | Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, [2017]. |
| 형태사항 | 1 online resource (261 pages): illustrations, map. |
| 기타형태 저록 | Print version: Wagner, Bryan. Tar baby. Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2017] 9780691172637 |
| ISBN | 9781400885619 1400885612 |
| 서지주기 | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 내용주기 | Ideas of culture -- States of nature -- Sticking fast -- Say my name -- The briar patch -- Epilogue -- Twelve examples. |
| 요약 | "A richly nuanced cultural history of an enigmatic and controversial folktale 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. Bryan Wagner explores how the tar baby story, thought to have originated in Africa, came to exist in hundreds of forms on five continents. Examining its variation, reception, and dispersal over time, he argues that the story is best understood not merely as a folktale but as a collective work in political philosophy. Circulating at the same time and in the same places as new ideas about property and politics developed in colonial law and political economy, the tar baby comes to embody an understanding of the interlocking processes by which custom was criminalized, slaves were captured, and labor was bought and sold. Compellingly argued and ambitious in scope, the book concludes with twelve versions of the story transcribed from various cultures in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries"--Provided by publisher. |
| 주제명(개인명) | Harris, Joel Chandler,1848-1908 -- Criticism and interpretation. Harris, Joel Chandler, -- Brer Rabbit and the wonderful tar baby.1848-1908. -- |
| 일반주제명 | Animals --Folklore. Cross-cultural studies. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology LITERARY COLLECTIONS / American / African American |
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