hysterical realism

pejorative term to describe certain realist-genre books
Intangible literary_genre Q3454432
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hysterical realism

Summary

hysterical realism is a literary genre[1]. It draws 179 Wikipedia views per month (literary_genre category, ranking #97 of 487).[2]

Key Facts

  • hysterical realism's instance of is recorded as literary genre[3].
  • hysterical realism's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/04ggl9[4].
  • hysterical realism's described at URL is recorded as https://newrepublic.com/article/61361/human-inhuman[5].
  • hysterical realism's described at URL is recorded as https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/hystericalrealism[6].
  • hysterical realism's described at URL is recorded as https://www.newstatesman.com/fiction/2009/12/novel-culture-smith-wood[7].
  • hysterical realism's described at URL is recorded as https://entertainment.time.com/2012/07/11/what-ever-happened-to-hysterical-realism/[8].
  • hysterical realism's described at URL is recorded as https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/06/james-wood-on-writing-his-own-novel-upstate-as-a-critic.html[9].
  • hysterical realism's Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/11gxt5pd4w[10].

Why It Matters

hysterical realism draws 179 Wikipedia views per month (literary_genre category, ranking #97 of 487).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 5 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[11] It is known by 12 alternative names across languages and contexts.[12]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
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Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [11] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [12] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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