post genre — writing that resists Resistant writing is writing that deploys the technologies and strategies of the avant garde, postmodernism, and genre fiction to resist affirmative culture. Characteristics of resistant writing include: dialogical approaches to narrative and form, breaking down boundaries between genre fiction and “literature,” mixing genres (horror, sci-fi, noir, poetry, realism, romance, media), speculative fiction, critical approaches to realism and realist epistemology, including anti-objectivity, pro-subjectivity, and a non-frigid attitude towards sensation, emotion, and desire.