Hysterical realism

Hysterical realism is a literary genre typified by a strong contrast between elaborately absurd prose, plotting, or characterization, on the one hand, and careful, detailed investigations of real, specific social phenomena on the other. The term was coined in 2000 by English critic James Wood. It is also known as recherché postmodernism.

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