LOCAL COLOR

WHAT IS LOCAL COLOR?

• Local color is not a color like blue or green...
• Local color, also known as regional literature, is fiction and
• poetry that focuses on characters, dialect, customs, topography,
• and other features to a specific region.
• *Remember: it has to be fiction.*

WHOOO USES LOCAL COLOR?

WHO USES LOCAL COLOR?

• EVERYONE... Poets... Fiction Writers...
• ...Like I said earlier, it is regional literature,
• So any one can use it, as long as they follow the characteristics.
• Even you use local color in your writing and poetry.
• *An author that commonly uses local color is Mark Twain.

LET'S REVIEW WITH MORE DETAIL

DETAILED REVIEW...

• It represents the dual influence of
• romanticism and realism.
• Its weaknesses most commonly involve
• sentimentality and nostalgia.
• Local color has to be fiction.

THIS IS HOW YOU "DO" LOCAL COLOR:

• Emphasize characters (types), particular to a
• region, rather than an individual.
• Contribute "old ways" by dialect and traits
• specific to that region.

SETTING...

• Emphasizes nature and the limitations it poses.
• Remote settings (usually)
• The setting is important for the story to play out,
• giving additional local color... Wrapping everything
• together as a whole.

THEMES...

• The reluctance for change
• Yearning for the past
• Celebration of community
• Conflict- between new and old ways

THE NARRATOR:

• Often an educated observer from a land beyond
• Maintains a distance from characters
• A narrator is a middle man between characters and the readers
• The plot is insignificant because nothing occurs within it.

THE END