Dystopia – Ambiguities and Paradoxes Enveloping a Changing Genre

Generic change, the birth, death or metamorphoses of types of texts happen all the time, their compass including not only factors within art history but also some of a context-bound nature, such as ideology, the political regime, habitus, interferences with other generic forms. The essay is looking at several modes whereby dystopia’s generic identity has been destabilized to the point where it leaves the sphere of non-factual sliding into realistic modes of representation or crossing the border that separates world and text. Probing into the reasons behind such mutations, our research has taken us to new considerations of theorists engaged in space studies, affect and trauma studies.