American literary regionalism
American literary regionalism or local color is a style or genre of writing in the United States that gained popularity in the mid to late 19th century into the early 20th century. In this style of writing, which includes both poetry and prose, the setting is particularly important and writers often emphasize specific features such as dialect, customs, history, and landscape, of a particular region: "Such a locale is likely to be rural and/or provincial."[1]
References
- ↑ J.A Cuddon, A Dictionary of Literary Terms. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1984, p.560.
Further reading
- Donovan, Josephine (1983) New England Local Color Literature: A Women's Tradition. New York: Ungar.
- Witschi, N.S. (2002). Traces of Gold: California’s Natural Resources and the Claim to Realism in Western American Literature. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. ISBN 0-8173-1117-3.
Southern regional writers
Main article: Southern literature
- James Lane Allen
- Wendell Berry
- George Washington Cable
- Erskine Caldwell
- Charles W. Chesnutt
- Kate Chopin
- Irvin S. Cobb
- Alice Dunbar Nelson
- William Faulkner
- Richard Ford
- Ellen Glasgow
- Davis Grubb
- Joel Chandler Harris
- Grace King
- Harper Lee
- Willie Morris
- Mary Noailles Murfree
- Flannery O'Connor
- Thomas Nelson Page
- Charles Portis
- Ron Rash
- Jesse Stuart
- Joseph Dawson
- John Kennedy Toole
- Robert Penn Warren
- Sam. R. Watkins – Tennessee
- Manly Wade Wellman
- Eudora Welty
- Thomas Wolfe
- Martha Strudwick Young
External links
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- Regionalism and Local Color Fiction, 1865–1895
- On the difference between local color and regionalism
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