Meaning of dirty realism | Babel Free

Definitions

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

uncountable

Examples

“It was Maryann Burk Carver who won the bread in those early years while Ray drank, fished, went to school and began writing the stories that a generation of critics and teachers would miscategorize as “minimalism” or “dirty realism.””

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