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  • Brodernism is not a writerly movement but a critical tendency, not a tradition in the strict sense but a kind of post facto absorption, a critical construction with no real basis in textual history or novelistic corpus that is slowly trickling into the fictional unconscious.

    Against High Brodernism | Los Angeles Review of Books Amit Chaudhuri 2025

  • Strangely, the phenomenon I reference—call it brodernism, with apologies for yet another portmanteau—doesn’t end with translated literature.

    Against High Brodernism | Los Angeles Review of Books Amit Chaudhuri 2025

  • Brodernism, nostalgic for the would-be uncharted waters of modernism (but whose?), revives the early 20th century’s fetish for textual originality devoid of its acute historical self-consciousness and critical cosmopolitanism.

    Against High Brodernism | Los Angeles Review of Books Amit Chaudhuri 2025

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