Local Colorism 地方色彩文学.docVIP

Local Colorism地方色彩文学 General Introduction(1) DefinitionThe detailed representation in prose fiction of the setting, dialect, customs, dress and ways of thinking and feeling which are distinctive of a particular region (2) OriginsA. Social Background: different culture in different places (no overwhelming mainstream culture)B. frontier humors since early 19th centuryC. good pay from magazines （3）Representatives Mark Twain (mainly wrote about areas along the Mississippi)(4) InfluenceLiterature about American South ?William Faulkner as a representative “Wessex Novels” written by Thomas H