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  1. hysterical realism: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
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  3. Hysterical realism: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  4. hysterical realism: Wiktionary

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noun:  (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.

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