ENGL 3514 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Uncle Remus, Magical Negro, Spike Lee
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Uncle remus is a name attributed to many folk tales from the american south published in 1881. Depicted as as kindly old former slave who passes on stories to children. Stories are told in harris" version of a deep south gullah dialect, the gullah are descendants or maybe creole. Harris" stories are an early example of cultural appropriation. Harris, a white man, collected the stories and published them. It"s the use of elements from one culture by members of another culture, usually misrepresentation, People take aspects of other cultures that they think :look neat but may have importance to the ther culture. Harris" tales of folksy wisdom were collected from slaves on the plantation that he actually worked for. Tales did not include those that depicted the true horrors of slavery. Uncle remus and his stories are the basis from the movie song of the south.