Br'er Rabbit's dream, from Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation, 1881
African originsEdit
The Br'er Rabbit stories can be traced back to trickster figures in Africa, particularly the hare that figures prominently in the storytelling traditions in West, Central, and Southern Africa.[4] Among the Temne people in Sierra Leone, they tell children stories of a talking rabbit.[5] Other regions of Africa also tell children stories of talking rabbits and other animals.[6] These tales continue to be part of the traditional folklore of numerous peoples throughout those regions. In the Akan traditions of West Africa, the trickster is usually the spider Anansi, though the plots in his tales are often identical with those of stories of Br'er Rabbit. However, Anansi does encounter a tricky rabbit called "Adanko" (Asante-Twi to mean "Hare") in some stories. The Jamaican character with the same name "Brer Rabbit" is an adaptation of the Ananse stories of the Akan people.[7][8]
The African savanna hare (Lepus microtis) found in many regions on the African continent: the original Br'er Rabbit.
Some scholars have suggested that in his American incarnation, Br'er Rabbit represented the enslaved Africans who used their wits to overcome adversity and to exact revenge on their adversaries, the white slave owners.[9] Though not always successful, the efforts of Br'er Rabbit made him a folk hero.
Several elements in the Brer Rabbit Tar Baby story (e.g., rabbit needing to be taught a lesson, punching and head butting the rabbit, the stuck rabbit being swung around and around) are reminiscent of those found in a Zimbabwe-Botswana folktale.[10]
Folklorists in the late 19th century first documented evidence that the American versions of the stories originated among enslaved West Africans based on connections between Br'er Rabbit and Leuk, a rabbit trickster in Senegalese folklore.[11][12]
American adaptationsEdit
Stories of Br'er Rabbit were written down by Robert Roosevelt, an uncle of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt. Theodore Roosevelt wrote in his autobiography about his aunt from Georgia that "she knew all the 'Br'er Rabbit' stories, and I was brought up on them. One of my uncles, Robert Roosevelt, was much struck with them, and took them down from her dictation, publishing them in Harper's, where they fell flat. This was a good many years before a genius arose who, in 'Uncle Remus', made the stories immortal."
Some stories were also adapted by Joel Chandler Harris (1845–1908) for white audiences in the late 19th century. Harris invented Uncle Remus, an ex-slave narrator, as a storyteller and published many such stories that had been passed down by oral tradition. He claimed his stories were "the first graphic pictures of genuine negro life in the South."[13] Harris also attributed the birth name Riley to Br'er Rabbit.[citation needed] Harris heard these tales in Georgia. Very similar versions of the same stories were recorded independently at the same time by the folklorist Alcée Fortier in southern Louisiana, where the Rabbit character was known as Compair Lapin in Creole. It has been argued that Beatrix Potter based her Peter Rabbit tales on Brer Rabbit.[14]
Cherokee parallelsEdit
In a detailed study of the sources of Joel Chandler Harris's "Uncle Remus" stories, Florence Baer identified 140 stories with African origins, 27 stories with European origins, and 5 stories with Native American origins.[15]
Although Joel Chandler Harris collected materials for his famous series of books featuring the character Br'er Rabbit in the 1870s, the Br'er Rabbit cycle had been recorded earlier among the Cherokees: The "tar baby" story was printed in an 1845 edition of the Cherokee Advocate, the same year Joel Chandler Harris was born.[16]
Rabbit and Hare myths abound among Algonquin Indians in Eastern North America, particularly under the name Nanabozho. The Great Hare is generally worshipped among tribes in eastern Canada.
In "That the People Might Live: Native American Literatures and Native American Community" by Jace Weaver, the origins of Br'er Rabbit and other literature are discussed. Although the Cherokee had lived in isolation from Europeans in the remote past, a substantial amount of interaction was to occur among North American tribes, Europeans, and those from the enslaved population during the 18th and 19th centuries. It is impossible to ascertain whether the Cherokee story independently predated the African American story.
In a Cherokee tale about the briar patch, "the fox and the wolf throw the trickster rabbit into a thicket from which the rabbit quickly escapes."[17] There was a "melding of the Cherokee rabbit-trickster ... into the culture of African slaves."[18]
Joel Chandler HarrisEdit
A.B. Frost illustration of Brer Rabbit and the Tar Baby from the 1895 version of Uncle Remus: His Songs and Sayings
Uncle Remus: His Songs and Sayings (1881), containing 25 Brer Rabbit stories.
Nights with Uncle Remus: Myths and Legends of the Old Plantation (1883), containing 52 Brer Rabbit stories.
Daddy Jake, the Runaway: And Short Stories Told After Dark (1889), containing four Brer Rabbit stories.
Uncle Remus and His Friends: Old Plantation Stories, Songs, and Ballads with Sketches of Negro Character (1892), containing 11 Brer Rabbit stories.
Told by Uncle Remus: New Stories of the Old Plantation (1905), containing 13 Brer Rabbit stories.
Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit (1907), containing four Brer Rabbit stories.
Uncle Remus and the Little Boy (1910), containing five Brer Rabbit stories.
Uncle Remus Returns (1918), containing six Brer Rabbit stories.
Seven Tales of Uncle Remus (1948), containing three Brer Rabbit stories.
Enid BlytonEdit
There are eight books by Enid Blyton that are collections of stories featuring Brer Rabbit and friends, most of which appeared in various magazines in the late 1930s.
In 1902, artist Jean Mohr adapted the Uncle Remus stories into a two-page comic story titled Ole Br'er Rabbit for The North American.[19]
The McClure Newspaper Syndicate released a Br'er Rabbit Sunday strip drawn by J.M. Condé from June 24 to October 7, 1906.[20]
Br'er Rabbit in Walt Disney's Song of the South (1946). Disney's version of the character is more stylized and cartoony than the illustrations of Br'er Rabbit in Harris' books.[21]
On April 21, 1972, astronaut John Young became the ninth person to step onto the Moon, and in his first words he stated, "I'm sure glad they got ol' Brer Rabbit, here, back in the briar patch where he belongs."[24]
In 1975, the stories were retold for an adult audience in the cult animation film Coonskin, directed by Ralph Bakshi.
In 1984, American composer Van Dyke Parks produced a children's album, Jump!, based on the Br'er Rabbit tales.
A direct-to-video adaptation from Emerald City Productions was released in 1989 and re-released various times in the 1990s, distributed by Family Home Entertainment (F.H.E.).
Rabbit Ears Productions produced two Br'er Rabbit tales ( Brer Rabbit and the Wonderful Tar Baby and Brer Rabbit and Boss Lion)
1998's Star Trek: Insurrection saw the Starship Enterprise enter a region of space called the Briar Patch. At some point during a battle with the Son'a, Commander Riker states that it is "time to use the Briar Patch the way Br'er Rabbit did".
There is a brand of molasses produced by B&G Foods named after the character.[26]
In Sam Kieth’s The Maxx, the character Mr. Gone refers to Maxx as “Br’er Lappin” and indeed Maxx is worried if he removes his mask he will find he has a rabbit’s head beneath it.
In the 1982 film Savannah Smiles, Savannah tells a story of Brer rabbit to her captors Bootsie and Alvie.
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Brer Rabbit redirects here For the musician see Flobots Br er Rabbit ˈ b r ɛer 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 He is a trickster who succeeds by his wits rather than by brawn provoking authority figures and bending social mores as he sees fit Popular adaptations of the character originally recorded by Joel Chandler Harris in the 19th century include Walt Disney Productions Song of the South in 1946 Br er RabbitBr er Rabbit and the Tar Baby drawing by E W Kemble from The Tar Baby by Joel Chandler Harris 1904First appearance19th centuryCreated byTraditional Robert Roosevelt Joel Chandler Harris Alcee FortierVoiced byJohnny Lee Song of the South and Mickey Mouse s Birthday Party 1 James Baskett The Laughing Place sequence in Song of the South 2 Art Carney Walt Disney s Song Parade from Disneyland 3 Dallas McKennon record releases Jess Harnell 1989 present Nick Cannon 2006 adaptation In universe informationAliasRiley Compair LapinSpeciesRabbitGenderMaleOccupationTrickster Contents 1 African origins 2 American adaptations 3 Cherokee parallels 4 Joel Chandler Harris 5 Enid Blyton 6 In popular culture 6 1 Early comics 6 2 Disney version 6 3 Other adaptations and references 7 See also 8 References 9 Further reading 10 External links Br er Rabbit s dream from Uncle Remus His Songs and His Sayings The Folk Lore of the Old Plantation 1881African origins EditThe Br er Rabbit stories can be traced back to trickster figures in Africa particularly the hare that figures prominently in the storytelling traditions in West Central and Southern Africa 4 Among the Temne people in Sierra Leone they tell children stories of a talking rabbit 5 Other regions of Africa also tell children stories of talking rabbits and other animals 6 These tales continue to be part of the traditional folklore of numerous peoples throughout those regions In the Akan traditions of West Africa the trickster is usually the spider Anansi though the plots in his tales are often identical with those of stories of Br er Rabbit However Anansi does encounter a tricky rabbit called Adanko Asante Twi to mean Hare in some stories The Jamaican character with the same name Brer Rabbit is an adaptation of the Ananse stories of the Akan people 7 8 nbsp The African savanna hare Lepus microtis found in many regions on the African continent the original Br er Rabbit Some scholars have suggested that in his American incarnation Br er Rabbit represented the enslaved Africans who used their wits to overcome adversity and to exact revenge on their adversaries the white slave owners 9 Though not always successful the efforts of Br er Rabbit made him a folk hero Several elements in the Brer Rabbit Tar Baby story e g rabbit needing to be taught a lesson punching and head butting the rabbit the stuck rabbit being swung around and around are reminiscent of those found in a Zimbabwe Botswana folktale 10 Folklorists in the late 19th century first documented evidence that the American versions of the stories originated among enslaved West Africans based on connections between Br er Rabbit and Leuk a rabbit trickster in Senegalese folklore 11 12 American adaptations EditStories of Br er Rabbit were written down by Robert Roosevelt an uncle of U S President Theodore Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt wrote in his autobiography about his aunt from Georgia that she knew all the Br er Rabbit stories and I was brought up on them One of my uncles Robert Roosevelt was much struck with them and took them down from her dictation publishing them in Harper s where they fell flat This was a good many years before a genius arose who in Uncle Remus made the stories immortal nbsp Eatonton Georgia s statue of Br er RabbitSome stories were also adapted by Joel Chandler Harris 1845 1908 for white audiences in the late 19th century Harris invented Uncle Remus an ex slave narrator as a storyteller and published many such stories that had been passed down by oral tradition He claimed his stories were the first graphic pictures of genuine negro life in the South 13 Harris also attributed the birth name Riley to Br er Rabbit citation needed Harris heard these tales in Georgia Very similar versions of the same stories were recorded independently at the same time by the folklorist Alcee Fortier in southern Louisiana where the Rabbit character was known as Compair Lapin in Creole It has been argued that Beatrix Potter based her Peter Rabbit tales on Brer Rabbit 14 Cherokee parallels EditIn a detailed study of the sources of Joel Chandler Harris s Uncle Remus stories Florence Baer identified 140 stories with African origins 27 stories with European origins and 5 stories with Native American origins 15 Although Joel Chandler Harris collected materials for his famous series of books featuring the character Br er Rabbit in the 1870s the Br er Rabbit cycle had been recorded earlier among the Cherokees The tar baby story was printed in an 1845 edition of the Cherokee Advocate the same year Joel Chandler Harris was born 16 Rabbit and Hare myths abound among Algonquin Indians in Eastern North America particularly under the name Nanabozho The Great Hare is generally worshipped among tribes in eastern Canada In That the People Might Live Native American Literatures and Native American Community by Jace Weaver the origins of Br er Rabbit and other literature are discussed Although the Cherokee had lived in isolation from Europeans in the remote past a substantial amount of interaction was to occur among North American tribes Europeans and those from the enslaved population during the 18th and 19th centuries It is impossible to ascertain whether the Cherokee story independently predated the African American story In a Cherokee tale about the briar patch the fox and the wolf throw the trickster rabbit into a thicket from which the rabbit quickly escapes 17 There was a melding of the Cherokee rabbit trickster into the culture of African slaves 18 Joel Chandler Harris Edit nbsp A B Frost illustration of Brer Rabbit and the Tar Baby from the 1895 version of Uncle Remus His Songs and SayingsThere are nine books by Joel Chandler Harris that contain Brer Rabbit stories Uncle Remus His Songs and Sayings 1881 containing 25 Brer Rabbit stories Nights with Uncle Remus Myths and Legends of the Old Plantation 1883 containing 52 Brer Rabbit stories Daddy Jake the Runaway And Short Stories Told After Dark 1889 containing four Brer Rabbit stories Uncle Remus and His Friends Old Plantation Stories Songs and Ballads with Sketches of Negro Character 1892 containing 11 Brer Rabbit stories Told by Uncle Remus New Stories of the Old Plantation 1905 containing 13 Brer Rabbit stories Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit 1907 containing four Brer Rabbit stories Uncle Remus and the Little Boy 1910 containing five Brer Rabbit stories Uncle Remus Returns 1918 containing six Brer Rabbit stories Seven Tales of Uncle Remus 1948 containing three Brer Rabbit stories Enid Blyton EditThere are eight books by Enid Blyton that are collections of stories featuring Brer Rabbit and friends most of which appeared in various magazines in the late 1930s Heyo Brer Rabbit 1938 The Further Adventures of Brer Rabbit 1943 My Enid Blyton Brer Rabbit Book 1948 Enid Blyton s Brer Rabbit Book 1963 Enid Blyton s Brer Rabbit Again 1963 Enid Blyton s Brer Rabbit s a Rascal 1965 Enid Blyton s Brer Rabbit Holiday Adventures 1974 Enid Blyton s Brer Rabbit Funtime Adventures 1974 In popular culture EditEarly comics Edit In 1902 artist Jean Mohr adapted the Uncle Remus stories into a two page comic story titled Ole Br er Rabbit for The North American 19 The McClure Newspaper Syndicate released a Br er Rabbit Sunday strip drawn by J M Conde from June 24 to October 7 1906 20 nbsp Br er Rabbit in Walt Disney s Song of the South 1946 Disney s version of the character is more stylized and cartoony than the illustrations of Br er Rabbit in Harris books 21 Disney version Edit The 1946 Disney film Song of the South is a frame story based on three Br er Rabbit stories Br er Rabbit Earns a Dollar a Minute The Laughing Place and The Tar Baby The character of Br er Rabbit was voiced by Johnny Lee in the film and was portrayed as more of a lovable trickster than previous tales 21 Disney comics starring that version of Br er Rabbit have been produced since 1946 22 Splash Mountain a thrill ride at Tokyo Disneyland and formerly at Disneyland and Magic Kingdom is based on the above 1946 film s animated segments featuring Br er Rabbit Br er Rabbit also appeared at the Walt Disney Parks and Resorts for meet and greets parades and shows He also appears on the television series House of Mouse 2001 2003 and in the 2001 direct to video Mickey s Magical Christmas Snowed in at the House of Mouse as well as in the 2011 video game Kinect Disneyland Adventures Starting with the Disneyland version of Splash Mountain in 1989 Jess Harnell has provided the voice of Br er Rabbit in all of his modern Disney appearances An Uncle Remus and His Tales of Br er Rabbit newspaper strip ran from October 14 1946 through December 31 1972 23 Other adaptations and references Edit On April 21 1972 astronaut John Young became the ninth person to step onto the Moon and in his first words he stated I m sure glad they got ol Brer Rabbit here back in the briar patch where he belongs 24 In 1975 the stories were retold for an adult audience in the cult animation film Coonskin directed by Ralph Bakshi In 1984 American composer Van Dyke Parks produced a children s album Jump based on the Br er Rabbit tales A direct to video adaptation from Emerald City Productions was released in 1989 and re released various times in the 1990s distributed by Family Home Entertainment F H E Rabbit Ears Productions produced two Br er Rabbit tales Brer Rabbit and the Wonderful Tar Baby and Brer Rabbit and Boss Lion 1998 s Star Trek Insurrection saw the Starship Enterprise enter a region of space called the Briar Patch At some point during a battle with the Son a Commander Riker states that it is time to use the Briar Patch the way Br er Rabbit did A direct to video film based on the stories The Adventures of Brer Rabbit was released in 2006 Nick Cannon provides his voice for the character 25 There is a brand of molasses produced by B amp G Foods named after the character 26 In Sam Kieth s The Maxx the character Mr Gone refers to Maxx as Br er Lappin and indeed Maxx is worried if he removes his mask he will find he has a rabbit s head beneath it In the 1982 film Savannah Smiles Savannah tells a story of Brer rabbit to her captors Bootsie and Alvie See also EditBr er Fox and Br er Bear Gullah storytelling List of Uncle Remus charactersReferences Edit A Spin Special Stan Freberg Records Retrieved 2017 09 21 The Song of the South Frequently Asked Questions Retrieved 2017 09 22 Walt Disney s Song Parade from Disneyland on Golden Records Retrieved 2017 09 26 Brer Rabbit and Ananse Stories from Africa article by Peter E Adotey Addo on AuthorsDen Authorsden com Archived from the original on October 24 2004 Retrieved July 3 2010 Pollitzer William 2005 The Gullah People and Their African Heritage University of Georgia Press p 125 ISBN 9780820327839 Abrahams Roger 2011 African Folktales Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group ISBN 9780307803191 Pariser Harry 1990 Jamaica A Visitor s Guide Hunter ISBN 9781556502538 Marshall Emily 2019 American Trickster Trauma Tradition and Brer Rabbit Rowman amp Littlefield International pp 59 60 ISBN 9781783481118 Levine Lawrence 1977 Black Culture and Black Consciousness Afro American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom Oxford University Press ISBN 978 0 19 502088 5 Smith Alexander McCall 1989 The Girl Who Married A Lion and Other Tales from Africa Pantheon Books NY pp 185 89 Arnold Albert 1996 Monsters Tricksters and Sacred Cows Animal Tales and American Identities University of Virginia Press M Baye Babacar 2009 The Trickster Comes West Pan African Influence in Early Black Diasporan Narratives Univ Press of Mississippi Ritterhouse Jennifer Reading Intimacy and the Role of Uncle Remus in White Southern Social Memory The Journal of Southern History vol 69 no 3 2003 pp 585 622 JSTOR www jstor org stable 30040011 Accessed 9 June 2021 Knight Lucy 19 May 2023 Beatrix Potter s Peter Rabbit story originated in African folktales expert argues The Guardian Baer Florence 1980 Sources and Analogues of the Uncle Remus Tales Folklore Fellows Communications ISBN 9514103742 Cherokee Tales and Disney Films Explored Powersource com June 15 1996 Archived from the original on May 24 2011 Retrieved July 3 2010 Latin American Indian Literatures Journal Dept of Foreign Languages at Geneva College 6 10 1990 a href Template Cite journal html title Template Cite journal cite journal a Missing or empty title help That the People Might Live Native American Literatures and Native American Community p 4 Becattini Alberto 2019 Genesis and Early Development American Funny Animal Comics in the 20th Century Volume One Seattle WA Theme Park Press ISBN 978 1683901860 Holtz Allan 2012 American Newspaper Comics An Encyclopedic Reference Guide Ann Arbor The University of Michigan Press p 83 ISBN 9780472117567 a b Brasch Walter M 2000 Brer Rabbit Uncle Remus and the Cornfield Journalist The Tale of Joel Chandler Harris Mercer University Press pp 74 275 Brer Rabbit I N D U C K S inducks org Archived from the original on 26 April 2019 Retrieved 23 March 2018 Disney s Uncle Remus strips Hogan s Alley 16 2009 Back in the Briar Patch Apollo Lunar Surface Journal Retrieved November 27 2011 Child s Play Washington Post 2006 04 09 Retrieved 2008 08 29 B amp G Foods Further reading EditBackus Emma M Tales of the Rabbit from Georgia Negroes In Journal of American Folklore Vol 12 1899 pp 108 115 Edwards Charles Lincoln Bahama Songs And Stories Boston and New York Pub by Houghton Mifflin and company etc etc 1895 Bahaman stories about B Rabby Fortier Alcee and Alexander Street Press Louisiana Folk tales In French Dialect And English Translation Boston Pub for the American folk lore society by Houghton Mifflin and company etc etc 1895 stories of Compair Lapin collected in Louisiana Marsh Vivian Costroma Osborne Types And Distribution of Negro Folk lore In America Berkeley 1922 Storr Virgil Henry B Rabby as a True True Bahamian Rabbyism as Bahamian Ethos and Worldview in the Bahamas Folk Tradition and the Works of Strachan and Glinton Meicholas January 1 2009 In Journal of Caribbean Literatures Vol 6 No 1 pp 121 142 2009 Available at SSRN https ssrn com abstract 1711268External links Edit nbsp Wikisource has original text related to this article Uncle Remus Br er Rabbit stories nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Br er Rabbit The Wrens Nest 100 Years OF Telling Tales Full text of Joel Chandler Harris from Project Gutenberg Brer Rabbit Stories at AmericanFolklore net Robert Roosevelt s Brer Rabbit stories Theodore Roosevelt autobiography on Brer Rabbit and his Uncle Inducks index of Disney comic stories featuring Br er Rabbit Archived audio recording of an educational ArtsSmarts elementary school recording of Brother Rabbit and Tar Baby Devin The Dude s song Briar Patch Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Br 27er Rabbit amp oldid 1178936806, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
