a
character in several stories by the writer Joel Chandler Harris (1848 - 1908). Many of the characters in these works, such as
Br'
er Bear, are animals endowed with human qualities.
Br'
er is Southern US dialect for
brother.
a
character who appears in the well-known stories written in the
late 1800s and early 1900s by
American journalist Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908). (
Br'
er is Southern US dialect for
brother.)
Br'
er Bear appears in the book
Uncle Remus, His Songs and Sayings (1880) and later in the book The
Tar Baby Story and Other Rhymes by
Uncle Remus (1904).
Br'
er Bear is a big and
bumbling,
dull-witted
character who is continuously being outsmarted by the trickery of the smaller and weaker
Br'
er Rabbit.