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Article: Local-Color Fiction
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Local-Color Fiction
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An American Palette.
After the Civil War the United States was still a nation of disparate cultures
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each region marked by distinctive customs, values, and economic conditions; each region struggling to find its niche in a newly reconstituted union. Nowhere was the nation
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s inherent diversity more evident than in its literature. The advent of literary realism in the late nineteenth century brought into focus the kaleidoscopic cast of American life. A group of realists known collectively as
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local colorists
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recorded the intonations and variations in American regional cultures. Perhaps the defining genre of the era, local-color ...
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