Chapter Two Survey of Studies on Local Color
The work - Folk Songs Singing was also a good announcement for Ziyangcounty, Ankang city. The film, more or less, became the mouthpiece of Ziyang county,demonstrated something not known to the people outside. That was something calledlocal color.
2.1 Definition of the Local Color and Its Development
Local color has been involved in many writers' articles at home or abroad.Hamlin Garland gives us a clear definition in his Crumble Idols. He claims that thelocal color is something unique that any other places can not absolutely have or anyother writers can describe it out compares with a native writer. Only the native writercan show the local color of their own regions more specific and clearer with theirnative thoughts and illusions using their pens. A unique place has its unique elementsand these elements are something called local color. This may include their nativespeech and custom. Local color is deprived from American literary realism. Whatlocal color wants to show to the readers is that something related to landscape, customor speech only can be seen or discovered in their regions which are different from theother places. So distinctive is the local color for a distinctive region that it seldom canbe found the same characteristics or qualities in any other places.Basically speaking, almost all the local colorists are focus on a setting of aisolated small town. They write articles from their personal experiences in their livingenvironment and they become the recorders of the past which is faded before theireyes and their ultimate aims are to record the truthful colors of their own places. Localcolor make the local colorists out of other writers, they become the newrepresentatives of the literary giants. They make full use of local culture, such ascustom,thoughts and clothes, especially local dialects and natural sceneries. Somefamous local colorists appeared in this area like Hamlin Garland, Mark Twain, KateChopin and so on. Usually,the local color has a close relationship with setting, dialect,custom, dress and way of thinking and feeling that are distinctive of a particularregion. Regional literature grew spectacularly in the period from the 1880s to the1890s. At the turn of the 20^ century, local color ceased to be a dominant fashion
2.2 Local Color Appeared Abroad a