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Zusatztext "A lively . . . piece of cultural detective work exploring the history of the tar baby." - Library Journal Informationen zum Autor Bryan Wagner is associate professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Disturbing the Peace . Klappentext "A remarkably rich and wide-ranging book that draws on many histories, geographies, and disciplines in exploring one of the nation's--and the world's--most disturbing but strangely elusive racial stories." --Eric J. Sundquist, author of King's Dream: The Legacy of Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream' Speech "Exhaustively researched, meticulously argued, and elegantly written, Bryan Wagner's The Tar Baby places Brer Rabbit and the gang at the very heart of an investigation that both illuminates the intricacies of the tar baby and exposes it to an uncustomary broadening of the scope and range of its meanings. Wagner's tar baby is not one we know; his account opens a wider horizon of persuasions and alignments that interrogate the onset of capitalism and the disorienting experience of early globalization." --Hortense J. Spillers, author of Black, White, and in Color: Essays on American Literature and Culture "Superb scholarship with original, compelling interpretation. Wagner has brought the tar baby story under the light and into the vocabulary of current theory." --W. T. Lhamon, Jr., author of Jump Jim Crow: Lost Plays, Lyrics, and Street Prose of the First Atlantic Popular Culture "A pioneering intervention into terrain conventionally marked off for folkloric and pop-culture exploration. Wagner wields the tools of contemporary critical theory, transnational American studies, and African American studies with admirable aplomb." --John S. Wright, author of Shadowing Ralph Ellison Zusammenfassung A richly nuanced cultural history of an enigmatic and controversial folktalePerhaps the best-known version of the tar baby story was published in 1880 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 throughout the world, including in Nige...
