Editing Grunge (section)

=== Fiction ===
{{Main|Grunge lit}}
Grunge lit is an Australian [[literary genre]] of [[fiction]]al or [[Autobiographical novel|semi-autobiographical]] writing in the early 1990s about young adults living in an "inner cit[y]" "... world of disintegrating futures where the only relief from ... [[boredom]] was through a [[nihilism|nihilistic]] pursuit of sex, violence, drugs and alcohol".<ref name="leishman" /> Often the central characters are disfranchised, alienated, and lacking drive and determination beyond the desire to satisfy their basic needs. It was typically written by "new, young authors"<ref name="leishman">Leishman, Kirsty, 'Australian Grunge Literature and the Conflict between Literary Generations', ''Journal of Australian Studies'', 23.63 (1999), pp. 94–102</ref> who examined "gritty, dirty, real existences"<ref name="leishman" /> of everyday characters.  It has been described as both a sub-set of [[dirty realism]] and an offshoot of Generation X literature.<ref>Vernay, Jean-François, '[http://www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=5550 Grunge Fiction]', ''The Literary Encyclopedia'', November 6, 2008, accessed September 9, 2009</ref> Stuart Glover states that the term "grunge lit" takes the term "grunge" from the "late '80s and early '90s— ... Seattle [grunge] bands".<ref name="stuartglover.com.au">{{cite web |last=Glover |first=Stuart |date=1996 |title=A Short Note on Grunge Fiction |url=http://www.stuartglover.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/A-short-note-on-Grunge-Fiction.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170219073033/http://www.stuartglover.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/A-short-note-on-Grunge-Fiction.pdf |archive-date=2017-02-19 |access-date=January 7, 2022}}</ref> Glover states that the term "grunge lit" was mainly a marketing term used by publishing companies; he states that most of the authors who have been categorized as "grunge lit" writers reject the label.<ref name="stuartglover.com.au" /> The Australian fiction authors McGahan, McGregor and Tsiolkas criticized the "homogenizing effect" of conflating such a different group of writers.<ref name="leishman" /> Tsiolkas called the "grunge lit" term a "media creation".<ref name="leishman" />