hysterical realism

English

Coined by English critic James Wood in 2000 to describe Zadie Smith's White Teeth.

hysterical realism (uncountable)

(literature) 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.
- 2000 July 24, James Wood, “Human, All Too Inhuman”, in The New Republic‎, ISSN 0028-6583:
  This is not magical realism. It is hysterical realism. […] The conventions of realism are not being abolished but, on the contrary, exhausted, and overworked.

单词	hysterical realism
释义	hysterical realism English Etymology Coined by English critic James Wood in 2000 to describe Zadie Smith's White Teeth. Noun hysterical realism (uncountable) (literature) 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. 2000 July 24, James Wood, “Human, All Too Inhuman”, in The New Republic‎, ISSN 0028-6583: This is not magical realism. It is hysterical realism. […] The conventions of realism are not being abolished but, on the contrary, exhausted, and overworked. See also magic realism
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