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alt-lit en · NOUN

Etymology

From alt- + lit.

Meanings

1. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, uncountable) Clipping of alternative literature, a literary movement influenced by internet culture, social media, and online publishing that emerged in the 2010s.
   alt of alternative literature
   • Alt Lit are dismissive of conventional notions of original authorship. On the website of the digital publisher Muumuu House, run by Alt Lit writer Tao Lin, many featured works are curated Twitter feeds. 2016, Adam Hammond, Literature in the Digital Age: An Introduction, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 143:
   • Tao Lin's novel Taipei best expresses the capitalist realism of Alt Lit. 2018, Matt Seybold, Michelle Chihara, editors, The Routledge Companion to Literature and Economics, Routledge, →ISBN:

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