Talk:American literary regionalism

Question
what are regional writers? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.21.106.94 (talk) 14:30, 4 May 2006 (UTC)


 * It seems like a good definition would be 'US writers' Pavium 03:39, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

Moved discussion
Discussion moved from Local Color: — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gaff (talk • contribs) 02:44, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

I don't know that Mark Twain is usually considered a "local colorist." Examples usually include Jewett, Cable, and Garland, but not Twain. I think the majority of scholars would argue that Twain's work transcends local color, which is often viewed--rightly or not--as being rather limited. -AW


 * I think Twain was definitely a local color writer; my McDougal Littell Literature book straight up says that he is, and it's quite evident that he did use local speech, dress, mannerisms, customs, character types, and landscapes of the regions which his works relate to. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.27.230.58 (talk) 02:32, 22 February 2010 (UTC)

Anybody think we should mention Faulkner here? (I don't know him well enough to know, myself.)


 * nope. The 20th century 'Southern Renaissance' is a different thing.

Local color IIRC involved using your characters for comic relief & had a certain implied condescension about it, which Twain generally has and Faulkner generally does not. I need to look up my notes (scrape off the top 3 inches of dust). From the way this entry is written it would seem Faulkner belongs, but I'm about 90% certain he does not. --KQ

I just stumbled upon the Wikipedia entry for local color. I see that the entry defines it as a style which "style relied heavily on using words, phrases, and slang that were native to the particular region in which the story took place," but discusses it mostly within the context of late 1800's southern U.S. fiction.

Now, Irvine Welsh writes about late 1900's Edinburgh, Scotland, but he writes in a style which conforms to the definition of "local color." If you've read his stuff, you'll know he often spells words to match the thick Scottish accents of his characters (like "cannae" instead of "cannot", or "hame" instead of "home"). Could he also be considered to use the "local color" style? -- DW

Above discussion (except as indicated) moved from Local Color talkpage by User:Gaff in May 2007. Ken Gallager (talk) 20:35, 8 February 2023 (UTC)

Globalize tag
I've added this tag because the last paragraph states that it isn't necessarily a locality-related thing, so all the talk about it being mostly used re: the US South is contradictory. Also I'm fairly sure I've heard it used about several other places besides the US South. Recury 20:57, 31 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Indeed! Regionalism is definitely a topic for literatures outside the USA.  --jbmurray (talk|contribs) 21:37, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

Your globalize tag was erased (not by me, that is), perhaps on behalf of the article being about Ameican lit. regionalism as the title shows, very well, BUT I still do agree with your comments as long as the Regionalism (lit.) (and the Regionalism (art)) pages redirect (see: Regionalism (literature)) to the mere american ones  (see also Regionalism (art). Which is even more reducing than having a non-global article about the subject. Anybody knows how to fix that?--Pierre et Condat (talk) 15:09, 14 August 2011 (UTC)

Added H.P. Lovecraft to New England list
nt - BostonFenian (talk) 20:36, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

References needed
This article has a serious lack of references - it has two external links, so it's not completely unreferenced, but no in-text citations. In particular, the 'Conceptual issues' and 'Characteristics' badly need referencing, as at present they are entirely original researhc. Robofish (talk) 13:50, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

Erm, definition please?
All nice and fine, but I'm still hazy on what the word "regionalism" itself is supposed to mean. Shouldn't the opening start with "Regionalism is this and that.", and then go on to it being the subject of scholarship and whatnot? I came to this site via a link from some other wiki site, wondering what the word "regionalism" in literature was supposed to mean, and I'm none the wiser. 180.43.32.103 (talk) 06:33, 9 November 2014 (UTC)

Acknowledgment
Thank you to Rollins College via the Wikipedia Visiting Scholars program for access to subscription databases used in compiling this article. -- M2545 (talk) 09:20, 12 March 2017 (UTC)

How can this article list Sarah Orne Jewett as a Southern Regionalist?
Seriously? She is a New England writer--mostly Maine. She may have helped create 'American regionalism', but not as a Southerner. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.241.72.9 (talk) 06:29, 4 November 2018 (UTC)


 * I agree. In fact, I’d venture to say that the list is a mess and needs serious editing—many of the authors listed are Southern writers but not necessarily regionalists. I have kicked off the process of fixing it by removing “Southern” from the lists title and adding several writers anthologized by Fetterly and Pryse. Nonmodernist (talk) 02:53, 17 February 2019 (UTC)