Very Very Odd Genres

Excrement Literature, which began as a Russian literary movement in the 1990's, also became an American genre with the publication of Toilet: The Novel.

Although the term Excrement Literature is wide embracing, it has been linked to Neo-Existentialism, which combines elements of Post-Modern and Existential thought, using the modern symbol of the bathroom and everything contained therein as an expression of modern life and the dying consciousness to break free from it.