Found inside – Page 144There are enough instances of this in media culture (Brer Rabbit; Bugs Bunny; Richard Kelly's Donnie Darko, 2001; Cottontail; Mastshingke; and of course ... Found inside – Page 4Such is the case with Brer Rabbit, Bugs Bunny, or even Peter Rabbit. North American rabbits and hares seem to be thriving wherever they are found. Found inside – Page 39OPPOSITE & ABOVE: Brer Rabbit could certainly be found not only in his ... at the Brer Rabbit Motel in nearby Dublin, he more closely resembled Bugs Bunny. Found insideTwo of the most wellknown tricksters are Brer Rabbit and Bugs Bunny. Since Bugs Bunny is the polycultured descendant of Brer Rabbit, and not quite as ... Found inside – Page 48In contemporary American culture, Bugs Bunny is likely the most recognizable descendant of the Brer Rabbit figure, always outwitting and eluding the hunter ... Found inside – Page 203... among African- Americans is Brer Rabbit (probably a predecessor of Bugs Bunny). Stories concerning Brer Rabbit abound, but a brief review of just one of ... Found insideIn the following years he developed his own plantation mythology in a series of volumes , narrated by “ Uncle Remus ” , telling colloquial tales of the wily hero Brer Rabbit ( an obvious precursor of Bugs Bunny ) and his clashes with the villain ... Found inside – Page 6The Brer Rabbit statue is located on the Putnam County Courthouse grounds ... Brer Rabbit is no ordinary hare; along with Warner Brothers' Bugs Bunny ... Found insideSome claim that Brer Rabbit of the Uncle Remus stories is modeled after John the Conqueror. Considering that Bugs Bunny was modeled after Brer Rabbit, ... Found inside – Page 167This orisha became known as John de Conquer and then later the 'Signifyin' Monkey' and Brer Rabbit (and some argue even Bugs Bunny) in the United States. Found inside – Page 76in heraldic traditions; in the creation of fictional characters (Bugs Bunny, Brer Rabbit, etc.) for use in story-telling ... Found inside – Page 18Here, her reference to the rabbit trickster is tied to work in literary studies that often traces Bugs Bunny back to Brer Rabbit. In Uncle Remus stories, ... Found inside – Page 23157 For all of their significance in reminding us how real and pervasive crossover has long been , neither Brer Rabbit nor Bugs Bunny has led us to cross ... Found inside... moved from Africa to America as part of the folklore of the West Africans taken as slaves. The modern equivalent of Brer Rabbit is probably Bugs Bunny. Found inside – Page 524... throughout his adventures, manages to outwit the stronger Brer Fox, Brer Wolf, and Brer Bear. Brer Rabbit's legacy continues with Bugs Bunny, ... Found inside – Page 499When asked about his early influences, Chappelle listed Bugs Bunny and the ... Such a phrase also describes Bugs Bunny—himself inspired by Brer Rabbit, ... Found insideNow, Bre'r Rabbit (Brer Rabbit for short) is the quintessential motherfucker he likes to swagger around ... Bre'r Rabbit Is the Bugs Bunny of Folk Heroes. Found inside – Page 155Then I took out the seven sets of bunny ears Sue had cut from white ... Pat grabbed “Bugs,” Glenn was “Brer Rabbit,” Joan was “Flopsy,” and Paul picked ... Found inside – Page 193The trickster rabbit who is Bugs Bunny's most immediate antecedent is , of course , Brer Rabbit , the central figure of Joel Chandler Harris's Uncle Remus stories published between 1879 and 1906. Indeed , it is through Harris's appropriation of ... Found inside – Page 146Fudd may be a variation of Mr. Man in the Remus tales, and Bugs Bunny's impertinent "Eh, what's up, Doc?" is in effect a reworking of Brer Rabbit's "How duz ... Found inside – Page 200And the wily hero of his animal fables, Brer Rabbit — to whom Bugs Bunny and perhaps even Harvey owe more than a little — is today a much bigger headliner ... Found inside – Page 76From the Easter Bunny to bunny suits, bunny slippers, and children's stories such ... Bugs Bunny, another famous rabbit, takes a cue from Brer Rabbit but is ... Found insideRabbits are trickster spirits in Africa and now, via transplantation, in the United States as well, the classic examples being Brer Rabbit and Bugs Bunny. They represent rabbits' powers of rebirth and regeneration: no matter how much trouble ... Found inside – Page 424... from Bugs Bunny to the Road Runner, and even B&G Foods' Brer Rabbit Molasses were born, bred, or otherwise cooked up in Brer Rabbit's briar patch. Found inside – Page 333He continues an American tradition embracing Brer Rabbit ( Bugs Bunny's precursor ) , Huck Finn and , more darkly , Herman Melville's The Confidence - Man . Found inside – Page 165Bugs Bunny, the cinema's only Oscar-winning rabbit, has a few theatrical cartoon ... (with Brer Rabbit) (¡946); Harvey (¡950); Alice in Wonderland (¡95¡); ... Found inside – Page 138of his animal fables, Brer Rabbit—to whom Bugs Bunny and perhaps even Harvey owe more than a little—is today a much bigger headliner than Bambi or Black ... Found insideBugs Bunny, created by Warner Brothers only a few years after Song of the South was released, is the modern trickster descendent of Brer Rabbit: he is smart ... Found insideWORLD FAMOUS BUNNIES • Peter Cottontail, aka the Easter Bunny • Brer Rabbit, from Disney's Song of the South • Bugs Bunny, “What's up, Doc? Found inside – Page 12... such as Brer Rabbit. Other famous rabbits include Walt Disney's Thumper in Bambi, Bugs Bunny, and Peter Rabbit in the Beatrix Potter tales. Found inside – Page 5018 Tales Out Of Africa Brer Rabbit , Sis ' Nanny Goat , and others were ... America's most famous trickster rabbit , Bugs Bunny , has been noticed.20 The ... In this pre-Loony Toons world of sassy, talking beasts, Brer Rabbit is the hero -- duelling both verbally and physically with those who would eat him, and perpetually in the monstrous shadow of the Tar Baby.The casual publication in 1877 of ... Found inside – Page 115... commodified evolution from the Brer Rabbit stories to Joel Chandler Harris's Uncle Remus stories , Disney's Song of the South , and even Bugs Bunny . Found inside – Page 162Familiar faces from the genus lepus include Bugs Bunny, Lola Bunny, the NesQuik bunny, Peter Rabbit, Brer Rabbit, Roger Rabbit, the Trix rabbit, ... Found insideAs I mentioned before, I heard the exploits of Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd, and the politically incorrect Brer Rabbit outwitting a sly fox and a stupid bear, ... Found inside – Page 470What do Bugs Bunny, Brer Rabbit and the Easter Bunny have in common? They are all hares, not rabbits. Bugs Bunny and Brer Rabbit are both modelled on North ... Found inside – Page 540reject the mediating smile of Remus, the indirection of the Rabbit. The present- day animated cartoon hero, Bugs Bunny, is, like Brer Rabbit, ... Found inside – Page 139... Big-Money: (ant mam'Ebam'E big-mun'E) witch bunny, More of Brer Rabbit's Tricks, ... More ofBrer Rabbit and His Tricks, Harris Bugs Bunny: (bugs bun'E) ... Found inside – Page 25You can hear echoes of Great Rabbit in other American trickster characters, including mischievous Brer Rabbit and the cheeky cartoon star, Bugs Bunny. Found inside – Page 200Brer Rabbit—to whom Bugs Bunny and perhaps even Harvey owe more than a little—is today a much bigger headliner than Bambi or Black Beauty, outclassing even ... Found insideBugs Bunny. Thumper. White. Rabbit. Brer Rabbit. Peter Cottontail. Yes, she had eaten someone named Peter. But he wasn't a rabbit. She'd give anything right ... Found inside – Page 87NG os 100 % WALT Disney's BLONDIE ANDY BRER RABBIT DAGWOOD SOME FUN ! ... Brer Rabbit # 704-10 , Bugs Bunny # 706-10 , Walt Disney's Cinderalla # 711-10 ... Found inside – Page 21And let us not forget Bugs Bunny. In film Disney presented Brer Rabbit in The Song of the South and Jimmy Stewart talked to Harvey the 6 foot tall pooka ... Found inside – Page 5If Brer Rabbit is read in a particular family , then the association of the rabbit ... Perhaps the most widely appreciated of mediated rabbits is Bugs Bunny ... Found insideBugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam, the Road Runner and the Coyote, Tweetie and Sylvester, and the rest of the Saturday morning cartoon herd reinvent Brer Rabbit's ... Found inside – Page 126... is the rabbit, Compere Lapin (or Brer Rabbit, as he is known in the British Caribbean and American South), a direct ancestor of our own Bugs Bunny.30 In ... Found insideBut like his cartoon offspring Bugs Bunny, Brer Rabbit outwits those he steals from, again and again, usually escaping punishment and succeeding at the ... Found insideThe famous Disney Film, Song of the South, features Brer Rabbit. A similar trickster figure is the character of Bugs Bunny in the Warner Brothers cartoons, ... Found inside – Page 67ter's illustrations of Peter Rabbit, or Bunnykins illustrations on Royal Doulton ... Bugs Bunny, Brer Rabbit, the movie character Roger Rabbit, Peter Rabbit ...