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	Library of Southern Literature: Regionalism and Local Color
		Whereas local color is often applied to a specific literary mode that flourished in the late 19th century, regionalism implies a recognition from the colonial period to the present of differences among specific areas of the country.
		The genesis of the local color movement was not surprising.
		Local color writing, which was regionally, and often rurally, based and usually took the form of short stories intended for mass consumption, met a need for stories about simpler times and faraway places.
	docsouth.unc.edu /southlit/regionalism.html (916 words)

	Local color - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Local color is a type of writing that was popular in the late 19th century, particularly in magazine sketches published in The Atlantic Monthly and Harper's.
		Other authors who incorporated local color in their works include: Hamlin Garland, Mark Twain, James Lane Allen, George Washington Cable, Kate Chopin, and Mary Noailles Murfree.
		Widely used in the theatre and especially on television, local color is often used derisively when a device becomes a cliché.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Local_color (245 words)

	Hamlin Garland's Literary Creed
		Simply put, "local color" is an attempt to reproduce facts of immediate present, the texture of life which writer has experienced, with a focus on American life of a given locale in an effort to foster a distinctively American literature through the depiction of a region's characters, customs, and textures of life.
		Local color in a novel means that it has such quality of texture and background that it could not have been written in any other place or by any one less than a native.
		Garland distinguishes between local color that is added on from that which comes from the writer's experience: "local color must not be put in for the sake of local color.
	people.uncw.edu /newlink/garland/coule.htm (1408 words)

	Southern Local Color: Introduction
		By externalizing “color,” local color fiction, like the color line that it helped to establish, created a separate place, a “different” locality, in which to preserve and celebrate values and ways of being that were no longer tenable in a society whose very premises were changing.
		Local color was, in fact, closely related to nineteenth-century materialist philosophies, such as Darwinism, and notions of truth associated more with the physical, “scientific” surfaces of reality than its psychological depths.
		This erasure of local color as the dominant late nineteenth-century literary mode was challenged in the last decades of the twentieth century by feminist critics.
	www.loyno.edu /~bewell/LocalColorIntro.html (17245 words)

	Regionalism and Local Color Fiction
		Local color or regional literature is fiction and poetry that focuses on the characters, dialect, customs, topography, and other features particular to a specific region.
		Its customary form is the sketch or short story, although Hamlin Garland argued for the novel of local color.
		Characters: Local color stories tend to be concerned with the character of the district or region rather than with the individual: characters may become character types, sometimes quaint or stereotypical.
	www.wsu.edu /~campbelld/amlit/lcolor.html (769 words)

	Louisiana Local Color: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In her essay "Varieties of Local Color," Merrill Maguire Skaggs notes that "the local-color label has occasionally been used to denigrate the exceptional fiction of several twentieth-century women" (219).
		It is part of the history and local manners of the Creole culture, and in turn, is an element of local-color.
		The geographic aspect of local color is stronger in "When the Bayou Overflows" than it is in "Love on the Bon-Dieu." Leonard Lutwack says that "as with all literary materials, place has a literal and a symbolic value, serving both geographical and metaphorical ends" (31).
	www.vsold.com /localcolor.html (1883 words)

	Library of Southern Literature: Local Color Era
		Peculiarities of speech, quaint local customs, distinctive modes of thought, and stories about human nature became the primary subject matter of this fictional movement, and because the South had an abundance of all these qualities in the popular American mind, southern authors flourished.
		Although once thought to be early realists, many of the local color writers described a quaint and curious world that may never have existed.
		One fl writer who spoke for his own race in local color fiction was Charles Waddell Chesnutt, raised in North Carolina, but he had to begin his literary career by disguising his racial identity because of the prejudice that only whites could understand and explain fls.
	docsouth.unc.edu /southlit/localcolor.html (560 words)

	Chittenden Solid Waste District
		Local Color is available in both interior and exterior grades, in ten popular colors (all in matte finish).
		Colors vary from batch to batch so be sure to purchase enough for the job!
		Local Color costs less than half the price of new paint -- just $7 - $9 per gallon, depending on color and quantity purchased.
	www.cswd.net /hazardous_waste/localcolor.shtml (131 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for local color (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
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		Trained under a variety of minor local artists, he was more influenced by the works of Giulio Romano, Parmigianino, and particularly
		pigmentation PIGMENTATION [pigmentation] name for the coloring matter found in certain plant and animal cells and for the color produced thereby.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=local+color (600 words)

	Local and Reflected Color
		local color, local value, reflected color, expressive color, subjective vs. objective, abstraction, realism, subject matter vs. content, color constancy.
		As an aid, avoid objects or backgrounds that are white, in accordance with the laws of color constancy.
		Take into consideration the effects of color we've studied so far--e.g., emotional/symbolic effects, subjective preferences, color interactions, color schemes, etc. Remember to use the second light source as a focus.
	www.asu.edu /cfa/Backup/wwwcourses/art/SOACore/color_local_VIH.htm (576 words)

	Local color - The Boston Globe
		For Suzi Weiss-Fischmann, nail color is as much about creating an experience as it is about making a statement.
		During naming sessions, the goal is to capture the colors of the landscape and the eccentricities of each location -- and then tie them into the season's fashion trends, she said.
		For the Canadian collection, OPI gave local colloquialism a shout-out with a shade titled ''Nice Color, Eh?" ''Aphrodite's Pink Nightie" was the goddess of the Greek collection.
	boston.com /news/globe/living/articles/2005/08/04/local_color/?...+News (579 words)

	Commercial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Color is one of the most cost-effective marketing tools available.
		Local Color specializes in creating unique exterior color palettes for apartment complexes, retail establishments and commercial buildings.
		Adding color is by far, one of the simplest and most cost-effective things you can do to enhance the beauty and appeal of any interior space.
	www.localcolorstudio.com /commercial.htm (279 words)

	Steven Jenner - Local Color Cards - About Local Color - Photography
		Local Color Cards was established in 1988 by Steven Jenner expressly for portraying the character of individual areas in local neighborhoods, campuses, and suburban communities.
		We are continually exploring all the back roads, quaint countrysides and intimate cityscapes in many parts of the country.
		Local Color is now the nation's largest producer of handmade photographic cards.
	www.localcolorcards.com /about-local-color.php (173 words)

	Local Color Fiction and Regionalism: Selected Bibliography
		Selected Bibliography on Local Color Fiction and Regionalism
		"Howellsian Chic: The Local Color of Cosmopolitanism." Elh 71.3 (2004): 775-812.
		"Local Color and the American Magazine." Essays Mostly on Publishing in America.
	www.wsu.edu /~campbelld/amlit/regbib.htm (1290 words)

	KC Local Color Independent Businesses
		KC Local Color™ is a community of Kansas City independent businesses-retailers, professionals, trades people, artisans, restaurateurs, healthcare providers and more.
		At KC Local Color™ we promote and market Kansas City independent businesses collectively using the KC Local Color™ brand.
		You'll see KC Local Color™ in local advertising, on window decals in neighborhood businesses, in our website directory and in booths at community events.
	www.kclocalcolor.com /index.aspx (192 words)

	Local Color - CIO Magazine - WebBusiness Section 2 - December 1, 1997 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Worldwide corporations must engage in local promotions, and in some cases, that means one-on-one bartering with local newspaper and radio stations.
		They say their goal is to reach audiences in developed and emerging markets outside the United States, to give them culturally sensitive and geographically pertinent information, to live down the generalization that most sites exhibit an ugly American attitude and to let employees, customers and partners beyond U.S. borders know they care.
		Develop a long-term relationship with your multilingual localization vendor, integrating the localization cycle with your development cycle and establishing a specific workflow for in-country review and validation.
	www.cio.com /archive/webbusiness/120197_global.html (3435 words)

	Big Sur Local Color - Online Big Sur Gallery For Local Big Sur and Central Coast Artists Purchace Big Sur Jade, Tie-dye ...
		Local Color is a gallery dedicated to Big Sur and Central Coast artists.
		In an effort to give them a place to show off their talents, we created the Local Color gallery.
		Most photographs were taken inside the Local Color store, so if you see something you are interested in, send us an email using our Contact Form.
	www.bigsurlocalcolor.com (289 words)

	Local Color Band
		Since its formation in 1989, Local Color has traditionally played the songs of the Grateful Dead, as well as traditional and cover songs made famous by the Grateful Dead.
		Local Color also plays a handful of selections from such artists as The Band, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Pink Floyd and The Rolling Stones, to name a few.
		This site is © Copyright Local Color Band 2004-2005, All Rights Reserved.
	localcolorband.com (69 words)

	Local Color
		As part of the new academic focus on digital arts at Duke, in the fall semester of 2005 Alex Harris taught a seminar on color photography as a documentary tool.
		Each week the seminar viewed and discussed the work of different contemporary color photographers, but the focus of the class was on work by the students.
		Students had one semester to start and complete a documentary project and to produce an edited and sequenced series of twenty color prints.
	cds.aas.duke.edu /exhibits/localcolor.html (227 words)

	Fredericksburg Art Portal @ MyLocalColor.com (My Local Color) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Fredericksburg and the surrounding area are home to over 300 accommodations that are better known as bed and breakfasts.
		The local newspaper is called the Fredericksburg Standard-Radio Post, which has an Internet edition.
		Once two separate newspapers, the Fredericksburg Standard and Fredericksburg Radio Post, the Radio Post was bought by the Standard in October 1984 when the publication went out of business due to local advertisers pulling out.
	www.mylocalcolor.com (959 words)

	Local Color (2006) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		These days we have movies that hurl us into outer space, throw us into life threatening situations laden with violence and hysteria, or filled with so many amazing special effects that one cannot tell what is real and what is not.
		Not that I don't love the Wachowski Brothers or enjoy peaking into the twisted, creative mind of Quentin Tarantino.
		Discuss this movie with other users on IMDb message board for Local Color (2006)
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0472126 (368 words)

	Jack London : Local Color
		Throw in the local color, wads of it, and a bit of sentiment perhaps, but no slumgullion about political economy nor social strata or such stuff.
		Well, I took my handful of copy paper down to the railroad yards (for local color), dangled my legs from a side-door Pullman, which is another name for a box-car, and ran off the stuff.
		While he was notorious in local trampdom, his civic sins were not only not unknown but a crying reproach to the townspeople.
	www.classicreader.com /read.php/sid.6/bookid.182 (4239 words)

	Local Color and Design - Caricatures
		Hannah's Tea Party is a story about a little lady growing up in a large medieval building, surrounded by all sorts of royal trapping except servants.
		It is punctuated with charming little pencil illustrations for all ages to enjoy.
		The book is 8 ½”x11” with a fl “comb style” binding, full color front and back cover, eighty three pages inside, both fl and white and color and sketch book pages.
	www.localcolordesign.net /books.htm (280 words)

	Local Color Art Studio
		The concept and process of creating art should be enjoyable, enlightening and fun.
		Competition is not a part of the curriculum at Local Color Art Studio.
		It is also our goal for your child to develop an appreciation for art and to love the process.
	www.localcolorartstudio.com (251 words)

	Fredericksburg Texas Portal @ LocalColorArt.com (Local Color Art) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Weather Channel - Fredericksburg, Texas - Local forecast, current conditions, radar, and links to national and international weather information.
		Local Cache Updated: Thu Sep 7 04:28:44 2006
		The Local Color Art Gallery closed its doors on July 30th, 2006.
	www.localcolorart.com (1230 words)

	Local Color Pinon Nuts - LocalHarvest
		Wholesale distributor and retail sales of organic wild raw pine nuts harvested locally from Native Americans using fair trade practice.
		Family business for 15 years selling locally grown food specializing in Pinon pine nuts.
		Pinon nuts direct from the local source in New Mexico - Pinonnuts.com
	www.localharvest.org /member/M12270 (76 words)

	San Francisco Local Color House Painting and Restoration
		San Francisco Local Color Inc. has been serving the Bay Area with high quality interior painting, exterior painting and restoration since 1973.
		We also provide epoxy repairs, gold leaf, front door refinishing, fire damage restoration, new custom home painting and presentation for sale painting.
		Our comprehensive approach is based on close client consultation, which assures that each job fulfills our demanding quality standards while honoring the client’s budget.
	www.sflocalcolor.com (112 words)

	Local Color magazine
		The Daily Post: Daily news online from Local Color.
		We hope you become major contributors of news, viewpoints, poetry and fiction and events.
		We published the first issue of Local Color in September 2004 with the idea of bringing Brighton together by sharing news and information about our community and our neighbors in a high-quality journalistic format.
	www.localcolormag.com (185 words)

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	Mets Geek » Blog Archive » Local Color
		I’m not talking about the New York Times or anything like that; I mean local papers.
		It was sort of the baseball equivalent to the local paper, focusing on smaller players who may not have contributed as much as the superstars, but who are still worth talking about.
		One of the players he mentioned was Chico Walker, who stuck with the Mets at the tail end of his career.
	www.metsgeek.com /articles/2006/05/18/local-color (5294 words)

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