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Continued from Part 1

Sterling’s creation of the Slipstream genre illustrates the slippage categories undergo. The vision of the Slipstream genre as a separate classification to Fantasy Fiction and Science Fiction where the writing “simply makes you feel very strange” was not a primal manifestation Sterling’s. Instead he was relabelling of a selection of titles that already had existed prior to his attempt to categorise them, such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez. He simply wanted to rebrand their genre classification as Slipstream genre titles… Continue reading “The Uncertainty of Genre: Problems of Classifying Irish Speculative Dystopias within the National Narrative Part 2”

Walking into Hodges Figgis, a modern lexicon of the Irish narrative, you are faced with shelves of classification that have grouped identity into categories. These categories are considered genres, they exist to help the capitalist consumer in sifting through writers until they discover a mirrored desire, a world that vibrates to their emotional and intellectual tuning. Continue reading “The Uncertainty of Genre: Problems of Classifying Irish Speculative Dystopias within the National Narrative Part 1”