In literature

Literature

Literature is the art of written works, and is not bound to published sources...

, regionalism or local color refers to fiction or poetry that focuses on specific features – including characters, dialects, customs, history, and topography

Topography

Topography is the study of Earth's surface shape and features or those ofplanets, moons, and asteroids...

 – of a particular region. American Literary Regionalism has been the subject of scholarship for the past several decades and has been a central site for scholarly debate on a variety of methodologies including Feminism

Feminism

Feminism is a collection of movements aimed at defining, establishing, and defending equal political, economic, and social rights and equal opportunities for women. Its concepts overlap with those of women's rights...

 and New Historicism

New Historicism

New Historicism is a school of literary theory, grounded in critical theory, that developed in the 1980s, primarily through the work of the critic Stephen Greenblatt, and gained widespread influence in the 1990s....

. This sub-field of American literary studies has been traditionally located in the late-nineteenth century.
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.