American Literature
This subfield of American literary
studies has been traditionally located in the latenineteenth century. Local Colorism or Regionalism as first appeared in the late 1860s and early
seventies in America. Hamlin Garland defined 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." The ultimate aim of the local colorists is, as Garland indicates, to create the illusion of an
indigenous little world with qualities that tell it apart from the world outside. Local colorists concerned themselves with presenting and interpreting
the local character of their regions. They tended to idealize and glorify, but they never forgot to keep an eye on the truthful color of local life. They
formed an important part of the realistic movement
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