文档介绍：Local Colorism Local Colorism asa trend first made its presence felt in the late 1860 ’s and early seventies in America. Local colorists concerned themselves with presenting and interpreting the local character of their regions like the characters, dialect, customs and other features particular to the specific region . Marked differences existed between different parts of the country when the expanded westward. The rest of the country keenly felt the psychological need to assert their cultural identity by showing their local character. The frontier humorists, who had flourished several decades before the Civil War, had prepared the literary ground for local colorism. And after the Civil War a good number of periodicals appeared usually willing to accept and pay well for local color short stories. Local colorists e mpha sized on physical setting and those distinctive qualities of landscape which condition human thought and behavior. The settings are frequently remote and essible. The narrator is typically an educated observer who serves as mediator between the rural folk of the tale and the urban audience to whom the tale is directed. Local color stories tend to be concerned with the character of the district or region rather than with the individual . Local colorists use detailed description contributing to an understanding of the region and dialect to establish credibility