Kmart realism, also termed Dirty realism

Dirty realism

Dirty Realism is a North American literary movement born in the 1970s-80s in which the narrative is stripped down to its fundamental features.This movement is a derivative of minimalism. As minimalism, dirty realism is characterized by an economy with words and a focus on surface description...

 is a form of social minimalist literature

Literature

Literature is the art of written works, and is not bound to published sources...

 found in American short fiction. , It is defined as "A literary genre characterized by a spare, terse style that features struggling, working-class characters in sterile, bleak environments.". These short stories "represent and reproduce the disintegration of public life they also represent the colonization of private life by consumer capitalism"