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fictionist
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fic·tion·ist  (fksh-nst)
n.
A writer of fiction, especially a novelist.


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Aguilar Cruz has put it, "Humorous stories about plausible people and situations, as far removed from O'Henry and Octavus Roy Cohen as the real laughter of our fathers is from Carlos Bulosan, are still being written by such before-the-war fictionists as Consorcio Borje, D.
Henry Louis Gates, likewise, in Figures in Black, credits Ellison with defining a new direction in black American fiction, freeing it from a narrowly mimetic tradition and providing contemporary black fictionists with "a new mode of seeing" and a "new manner of representation" (246).
Another grievance against the family current among fictionists then was that it had wrongly moralized, even sanctified, itself to cover up the carnality at its core.
 
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