Uncle Remus

Uncle Remus
First appearance	Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation
Created by	Joel Chandler Harris
Portrayed by	James Baskett (Song of the South)
Voiced by	Dallas McKennon (record releases)
In-universe information
Gender	Male
Nationality	American

Uncle Remus is the fictional title character and narrator of a collection of African American folktales compiled and adapted by Joel Chandler Harris and published in book form in 1881. Harris was a journalist in post–Reconstruction era Atlanta, and he produced seven Uncle Remus books. He did so by introducing tales that he had heard and framing them in the plantation context. He wrote his stories in a dialect which was his interpretation of the Deep South African-American language of the time. For these framing and stylistic choices, Harris's collection has garnered controversy since its publication.^[1] Many of these stories are believed to have Creek Indian influence too.^{[citation needed]}