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local color writing
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From: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms
Date: 20040101
Author:CHRISTOPHER BALDICK
local color writing,
a kind of fiction that came to prominence in the USA in the late 19th century, and was devoted to capturing the unique customs, manners, speech, folklore, and other qualities of a particular regional community, usually in humorous short stories. The most famous of the local colorists was Mark Twain; others included Bret Harte, George Washington Cable, Joel Chandler Harris, Kate Chopin, and Sarah Orne Jewett. The trend has some equivalents in European fiction, notably in the attention given by Zola and Hardy to the settings of their stories.Read the rest of this article with a Free Trial at HighBeam Research.
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