The tar baby
Subtitle: a global history
By: Bryan Wagner
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9780691172637
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Cross-cultural studies; Animals; Folklore; African Americans
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-256) and index.
Table of contents: title: Ideas of culture; title: States of nature; title: Sticking fast; title: Say my name; title: The briar patch; title: Epilogue; title: Twelve examples.