The story
Coined by English critic James Wood in 2000 to describe Zadie Smith's White Teeth.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
hysterical realism
Today it means: 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. Full definition →