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Joel Chandler Harris

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Noun1.Joel Chandler Harris - United States author who wrote the stories about Uncle Remus (1848-1908)

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Enlarging on Charles Chesnutt's critique of a utopian South, Toomer offers a much more accurate and complex view than that of Reconstruction writers Thomas Nelson Page and Joel Chandler Harris, by rendering not only the beauty of the land but also the brutality of the culture.
In his Pisan Cantos (perhaps his greatest celebration of the locus amoenus, written only a few miles south of Pea's Viareggio), he mentions Pea in the same breath as James Whitcomb Riley, the American dialect poet and a lifelong favorite of Pound's, as was Joel Chandler Harris.
For that reason the book I'd particularly want to place in the hands of a child one hundred years from now is Uncle Remus, by Joel Chandler Harris.
 
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