Cross-genre

Cross-genre (or hybrid genre) writing blends stylistic and structural elements from two or more literary genres in an experimental format. World Literature Today identified the leading 20th Century mixed-genre authors as German playwright Heiner Müller, Polish theater director, painter, and essayist Tadeusz Kantor, and Puerto Rican poet and novelist Giannina Braschi who have written mixed-genre classics that defy the boundaries of theater, poetry, fiction, philosophy, and essay. Often considered commercially non-viable books at first, cross-genre writing has historically been debuted through excerpts published in vanguard literary magazines, such as Bomb Magazine, Evergreen Review, Agni, Zoetrope, and World Literature Today.