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Local Colorism地方色彩文学 General Introduction(1) DefinitionThe detailed representation in prose fiction of the setting, dialect, customs, dress and ways of thinking and feeling which are distinctive of a particular region (2) OriginsA. Social Background: different culture in different places (no overwhelming mainstream culture)B. frontier humors since early 19th centuryC. good pay from magazines （3）Representatives Mark Twain (mainly wrote about areas along the Mississippi)(4) InfluenceLiterature about American South ?William Faulkner as a representative “Wessex Novels” written by Thomas Hardy Mark Twain (1835-1910) Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835–1910. an American author,a humorist, narrator, and social observer. Twain is unsurpassed in American literature A. He lived in a town named Hannibal along the Mississippi when he was a child. His life experience in the town was used in his famous novels.B. His father died when he was 12 and then he left school.C. He lived on all kinds of odd jobs and then went to the West. He worked as a reporter there and wrote lots of frontier humors.D. After marriage he moved to New England and then gradually became a famous writer.E. His late life was a tragedy. (failure of investment, death of his wife and two daughters) Mark Twain and The Mississippi River Half twain! Quarter twain! M-a-r-k twain!” “two fathom’s depth of navigable water”. For most people, the name Mark Twain is virtually synonymous with the life along the Mississippi River immortalized in the authors writing. Clemens first signed his writing with the name in February 1863, as a newspaper reporter in Nevada. masterpieces The Adventures of Tom SawyerThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huck Finn 匱here was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since. The novel is filled with rich descriptions of the river and the colorful people who lived along it. He alsio employed humor to invo