ENG 483 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Frances Harper, Pauline Hopkins, Henry Louis Gates Jr.
16 Oct 2018
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Wisconsin: sarah orne jewett: homosexual new englander, sui sin far (edith maude eaton): wanted to represent the asian american experience in the 19th century, chinese ancestry, characteristics, setting: emphasis on nature and the limitations it imposes. It plays an integral role to the story. It"s a rural or provincial space remote and inaccessible: 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. The narrator serves as a mediator between the rural folk of the tale and the urban audience to whom the tale is directed: plots: nothing happens in local color stories, and often very little does happen. Stories may include lots of storytelling and revolve around the community and its rituals: motifs: local color stories resist change. Du bois: dabbles in fictional writing but is best known for the souls of.
