Usually means: Gritty, unpolished depiction of life.
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  1. dirty realism: Collins English Dictionary
  2. dirty realism: Wiktionary
  3. dirty realism: Dictionary.com
  4. Dirty realism: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  5. dirty realism: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

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