English Explanatory Dictionary

dirty realism

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A North American literary movement that depicts seamy or mundane aspects of ordinary life in spare, unadorned language.

Word forms

dirty realism

Etymology

Coined by Bill Buford of Granta magazine in 1983.

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