JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS

Joel Chandler Harris was an American journalist, fiction writer, and folklorist best known for his collection of Uncle Remus stories. Harris was born in Eatonton, Georgia, where he served as an apprentice on a plantation during his teenage years. He spent most of his adult life in Atlanta working as an associate editor at the Atlanta Constitution. This is his, "A Story Of A Georgia Boys Adventures During The War".

Uncle Remus is the fictional title character and narrator of a collection of African-American folktales adapted and compiled by Joel Chandler Harris, published in book form in 1881. A journalist in post-Reconstruction Atlanta, Georgia, Harris produced seven Uncle Remus books.

In preparing the pages that follow, the writer has had in view the desirability of familiarizing the youth of Georgia with the salient facts of the States history in a way that shall make the further study of that history a delight instead of a task. The ground has been gone over before by various writers, but the narratives that are here retold, and the characterizations that are here attempted, have not been brought together heretofore. They lie wide apart in volumes that are little known and out of print.The stories and the characterizations have been grouped together so as to form a series of connecting links in the rise and progress of Georgia; yet it must not be forgotten that these links are themselves connected with facts and events in the States development that are quite as interesting, and of as far-reaching importance, as those that have been narrated here. Some such suggestion as this, it is hoped, will cross the minds of young students, and lead them to investigate for themselves the interesting intervals that lie between.It is unfortunately true that there is no history of Georgia in which the dry bones of facts have been clothed with the flesh and blood of popular narrative. Colonel Charles C. Jones saw what was needed, and entered upon the task of writing the history of the State with characteristic enthusiasm. He had not proceeded far, however, when the fact dawned upon his mind that such a work as he contemplated must be for the most part a labor of love. He felt the influence of cold neglect from every source that might have been expected to afford him aid and encouragement. He was almost compelled to confine himself to a bare recital of facts, for he had reason to know that, at the end of his task, public inappreciation was awaiting him.

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Convertido desde el momento de su aparición en un clásico absoluto de la literatura norteamericana, las cuentos narrados por El Tío Remus son un retrato absolutamente necesario de aquello que sucedió en una epoca y lugar muy concretos: la esclavitud, el sur de Estados Unidos antes y despues de la guerra civil, la segregacion racialCon estas fabulas y leyendas nacidas en las mismas plantaciones, mas de cien cuentos narrados cada noche por un viejo esclavo a un niño blanco y magistralmente traducidos por Jaime de Ojeda, Joel Chandler Harris (influencia e inspiracion para autores como Mark Twain, Beatrix Potter o William Faulkner) recopilo, registro y conservo un folclore que estaba a punto de perderse. Nos permitio tener un panorama no siempre agradable del momento, ademas de un inigualable testimonio filologico y cultural.