Local Color, World Literature, And The Transnational Turn In William Dean Howells's Fiction And Criticism
Local Color, World Literature, And The Transnational Turn In William Dean Howells's Fiction And Criticism
This chapter examines how literary realism provided a means for American literature to play a more vital role in world literature by focusing on William Dean Howells's late fiction and criticism. More specifically, it explores Howells's expression of transnational turn in his work in an attempt to reposition realism—and more specifically, the techniques of local color—as the most adequate means of representing the United States' centrality to the world economy. It also considers the relationship between world literature and American literature, together with the paradoxical nature of local color, which involved the use of a standardized set of literary conventions such as dialect and episodic narrative structure.
Keywords: literary realism, American literature, world literature, William Dean Howells, fiction, transnational turn, local color, United States, dialect
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