Description
Very Good dust jacket, a book jacket cover has been added, minor shelf-wear. The Very Good binding is dark blue cloth over boards with gilt lettering on the spine, ink stamped price on front free endpaper. The binding is tight and pages are clean.
About the book: (from the dust jacket)
“The author draws a clear and interesting picture of the sources of Harris’ acquaintance-with the life of the before-the-war Negroes and especially of their native gift for narrative and their humor. Her analysis of the Uncle Remus books preserves to a remarkable degree their distinctive quality, and her examples of the songs, myths, ghost and devil tales, and other bits of folklore appearing in Harris’ books are well chosen to clarify the nature of folklore in the Uncle Remus stories. Mrs. Brookes’ study is scholarly, well written, and vastly entertaining. It will be prized not only by the thousands of Americans with whom Uncle Remus has long been a favorite, but also by all students of American literature and folklore.” Oscar James Campbell, Executive Director English Department, Columbia University.
About the author: (from the dust jacket)
The family of Stella Brewer Brookes has lived in Austin, Texas, for almost half a century. As a child she listened to stories related by her father who knew the Oklahoma Land Rush and the Old Chisholm Trail, and she read the quaint stories and tall tales collected by her brother, J. Mason Brewer. Thus the lore of the people was close at hand. She has never lost the impress of that early period She attended Wiley College, Marshall Texas, where she was graduated valedictorian of the class of 1923. In 1928 she was married to E. Luther Brookes. She received the M. A. degree from the University of Michigan in 1930, and the Ph. D. degree from Cornell University in 1946. In 1924 she became a member of the faculty of Clark College, Atlanta. Except for brief periods of study, she has never left this position as Professor of English, She has contributed articles and reviews to a large number of magazines and is a well known lecturer.
