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| - Local Color Fiction (Lokalkolorit-Bewegung) ist ein Zweig der US-amerikanischen Literatur des 19. Jahrhunderts, die Regionaltypisches mit großer Detailtreue darstellte und damit neue sozialrealistische, naturalistische und sozialkritische Gestaltungselemente in die Literatur einbrachte, ohne auf sozialromantische und sentimentale Motive zu verzichten. Kennzeichnend sind u. a. die Verwendung von Dialekt sowie die präzise Beschreibung von Landschaften, Milieus und Folklore aus persönlicher Erfahrung der Autoren, so z. B. der Milieus von Goldgräbern oder Cowboys. (de)
- 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." Regionalism is influenced by both 19th-century realism and romanticism, adhering to a fidelity of description in the narrative but also infusing the tale with exotic or unfamiliar customs, objects, and people. (en)
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| - 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." Regionalism is influenced by both 19th-century realism and romanticism, adhering to a fidelity of description in the narrative but also infusing the tale with exotic or unfamiliar customs, objects, and people. Literary critics argue that nineteenth-century literary regionalism helped preserve American regional identities while also contributing to domestic reunification efforts after the Civil War. Richard Brodhead argues in Cultures of Letters, "Regionalism's representation of vernacular cultures as enclaves of tradition insulated from larger cultural contact is palpably a fiction ... its public function was not just to mourn lost cultures but to purvey a certain story of contemporary cultures and of the relations among them" (121). Amy Kaplan, in contrast, debates race relations, empire, and literary regionalism in the nineteenth century, noting that, "The regions painted with 'local color' are traversed by the forgotten history of racial conflict with prior regional inhabitants, and are ultimately produced and engulfed by the centralized capitalist economy that generates the desire for retreat" (256). Critic Eric Sundquist ultimately suggests the social inequity inherent in the aesthetic distinction between realist and regionalist authors: "Economic or political power can itself be seen to be definitive of a realist aesthetic, in that those in power (say, white urban males) have been more often judged 'realists,' while those removed from the seats of power (say, Midwesterners, blacks, immigrants, or women) have been categorized as regionalists" (503). (en)
- Local Color Fiction (Lokalkolorit-Bewegung) ist ein Zweig der US-amerikanischen Literatur des 19. Jahrhunderts, die Regionaltypisches mit großer Detailtreue darstellte und damit neue sozialrealistische, naturalistische und sozialkritische Gestaltungselemente in die Literatur einbrachte, ohne auf sozialromantische und sentimentale Motive zu verzichten. Kennzeichnend sind u. a. die Verwendung von Dialekt sowie die präzise Beschreibung von Landschaften, Milieus und Folklore aus persönlicher Erfahrung der Autoren, so z. B. der Milieus von Goldgräbern oder Cowboys. (de)
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