Topolect literature
If you do a search across the internet for this term, you will find it used here and there. You will even find the extended expression Topolect Literature Movement (TLM), which is traced back to at least the mid-twentieth century.
For the lexical legitimacy and morphological construction of "topolect literature", see this comment to a previous post:
"Topolect literature" may seem to be a contradiction in terms — fāngyán wénxué 方言文學 ("topolect literature"). On the other hand, "oral literature" is a well-established concept / term in global scholarship, the idea being that this is written literature transcribed / derived from oral sources.
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