The tar baby [electronic resource] : a global history / Bryan Wagner.

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, in...

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Main Author: Wagner, Bryan (Author)
Language:English
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2017]
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The Tar Baby: A Global History
Format: Electronic eBook

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505 0 |a Ideas of culture -- States of nature -- Sticking fast -- Say my name -- The briar patch -- Twelve examples. 
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