Author

Publication

2017 - Princeton University Press, New Jersey

Language

English

Word Count

65,250 words, Guess

Page Count

261 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100691172633
  • ISBN-139780691172637
  • Library of Congress Control Number2016945502
  • OCLC Control Number958799654
  • Better World Books9780691172637
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Classifications

  • DDC398.2452
  • LCCGR111.A47 W34 2017
  • LCCGR111.A47W34 2017

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.

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Other Editions

  • The tar baby: a global historyPrinceton University Press2017-01-01

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