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The 100 pages that link to Social realism, each with the reason it gives.

• José Lins do RegoRelated: His novels turn class relations and economic change into intimate family and community stories.

• Khwaja Ahmad AbbasRelated: His films used realist settings and working-class characters to make inequality visible.

• Nelson AlgrenRelated: Algren’s work helped sustain attention to poverty and marginalized lives in American fiction.

• Puttanna KanagalRelated: His stories brought stigma, gender roles, and social pressure into mainstream Kannada film drama.

• Aki KaurismäkiRelated: His films combine working-class settings with stylization rather than documentary naturalism.

• Àngel GuimeràRelated: His later dramas brought contemporary labor and community pressures onto the stage.

• Bruce DaweRelated: Dawe uses familiar settings and voices to make social pressures legible.

• DegrassiRelated: Degrassi grounds dramatic plots in everyday settings and contemporary teenage concerns.

• Dharmasena PathirajaRelated: His films use intimate stories to expose class, labor, and power.

• Halit RefiğRelated: Its concern with lived social experience helps situate his early films.

• Hirokazu Kore-edaRelated: Shoplifters links its intimate family story to poverty, precarious labor, and social exclusion.

• Jin Ping MeiRelated: Its household scenes and material detail anticipate later discussions of realism in Chinese fiction.

• Pacita AbadRelated: Her paintings address poverty, displacement, and the lives of marginalized people.

• Rakhshān BanietemadRelated: Her films use intimate stories to expose economic and gendered inequalities.

• Vũ Trọng PhụngRelated: His vivid attention to class and urban life gives satire a realist setting.

• Yaşar KemalRelated: His fiction turns poverty, landownership, and injustice into narrative conflicts.

• Zhang LepingRelated: Zhang’s comic humor made poverty and inequality visible through the daily life of a child.