ABSTRACT
According to Annick Wibben (2011, 43)
As homo significans (meaning makers) the world is accessible to us only through interpretations. However, we are also homo fabulans because we interpret and tell stories about our experiences, about who we are or what we want to be, and what we believe. Narratives order our world.
To perform this role of ordering, we must assimilate new narratives into existing conceptual frameworks (which may in turn be built on narrative structures). Genre is complex and many-faceted; it is not reducible to a single functional purpose. Still, one way in which we can assimilate narratives is by placing them into genre categories. This book began by asserting that we live in dystopian times insofar as generic conventions and themes of dystopian literature are culturally pervasive and diffuse, and that the genre has become a ready referent for interpreting political events.