These tales continue to be part of the traditional folklore of numerous peoples throughout those regions. Other regions of Africa also tell children stories of talking rabbits and other animals. Among the Temne people in Sierra Leone, they tell children stories of a talking rabbit. The Br'er Rabbit stories can be traced back to trickster figures in Africa, particularly the hare that figures prominently in the storytelling traditions in West, Central, and Southern Africa. Popular adaptations of the character, originally recorded by Joel Chandler Harris in the 19th century, include Walt Disney Productions' Song of the South in 1946.īr'er Rabbit's dream, from Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation, 1881 African origins He is a trickster who succeeds by his wits rather than by brawn, provoking authority figures and bending social mores as he sees fit. James Baskett (The Laughing Place sequence in Song of the South )Īrt Carney ( Walt Disney's Song Parade from Disneyland )īr'er Rabbit ( / ˈ b r ɛər/) (an abbreviation of Brother Rabbit, also spelled Brer Rabbit) is a central figure in an oral tradition passed down by African-Americans of the Southern United States and African descendants in the Caribbean, notably Afro-Bahamians and Turks and Caicos Islanders. Johnny Lee ( Song of the South and Mickey Mouse's Birthday Party ) Traditional, Robert Roosevelt, Joel Chandler Harris, Alcée Fortier Kemble from "The Tar-Baby", by Joel Chandler Harris, 1904 Br'er Rabbit and the Tar-Baby, drawing by E.
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