The Tar Baby: A Global History
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Publishing Details
The Tar Baby: A Global History
By (Author) Bryan Wagner
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
3rd July 2017
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Social and political philosophy
Short stories
Fiction in translation
398.209
Physical Properties
Hardback
280
Width 140mm, Height 216mm
454g
Description
A richly nuanced cultural history of an enigmatic and controversial folktale 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 pla
Reviews
"A lively ... piece of cultural detective work exploring the history of the tar baby."--Library Journal
Author Bio
Bryan Wagner is associate professor in the English Department at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Disturbing the Peace: Black Culture and the Police Power after Slavery.
