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Chapter 9 Local Colorism. Mark Twain Content Local colorism and its background Local colorists Mark Twain and his works On Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain’s contributions Local Colorism √ p130-2 Hamlin garland, in his Crumbling Idols, defines local colorism as having “such quality of texture? and background? that it could not have been written in any other place or by anyone else than a native.” p130 As a trend, it first made its presence felt in the late 1860s and early 70s. Not until the turn of the 20th C did local colorism cease to be a dominant fashion. P131pa