Cis Male Literature - by Charlie Markbreiter

The other word for brodernist texts

DFW’s Infinite Jest is technically too mainstream for the brodernist canon, but this photo of him is so…striking…I had to include it anyway lol With self-aware ambivalence, Federico Perelmuter has gifted us a new buzzword: “brodernism.” Perelmuter uses this portmanteau––a combination of “bro” and “modernism”––to describe a gendered literary combination: men hyperbolically praising “difficult” literature with strident vacuity. While men are not the only brodernist authors, “male writers dominate the corpus, and a tendency for phallic competition underlies the formation’s core texts." Think…

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