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tikoes
08-08-2010, 11:18 AM
Hi everybody!

The 19th American short story reflected the political climate and the zeitgeist of that time. Short stories dealt with a variety of different topics and the American short story (as far as I understand it ) consists at least of the following three sub-genres : realistic short stories, naturalistic short stories AND local color short stories.

Here I have a number of questions and I would appreciate it a lot if some of you could comment on those because I’m somehow lost here ☺ :

- This is what wikipedia says about American local color literature:
“In chronicling the nation's stories about its regions and mythical origins, local color fiction through its presence—and, later, its absence—contributed to the narrative of unified nationhood that late nineteenth-century America sought to construct”

In what sense exactly did local color fiction help to unify the nation? Just because it represented different regions?

- What are the major differences between realistic and naturalistic short stories?


Thank you :)!