Within the last few years, we've witnessed a breaking down of the restrictive barriers called genres imposed upon writers by last century literary gatekeepers. Of course, those genre guidelines were created, named and renamed through the centuries.
In the still early, twenty-first century, it's time for a reorganization or better yet a letting go of genre classifications. The post-structural sage, Jacques Derrida, called for consideration of the restrictive designation genre in the latter part of the last century:
"I submit for your consideration the following hypothesis: a text cannot belong to no genre, it cannot be without or less a genre. Every text participates in one or several genres, there is no genreless text; there is always a genre and genres, yet such participation never amounts to belonging. And not because of an abundant overflowing or a free, anarchic and unclassifiable productivity, but because of the trait of participation itself, because of the effect of the code and of the generic mark. Making genre its mark, a text demarcates itself. If remarks of belonging belong without belonging, participate without belonging, then genre-designations cannot be simply part of the corpus."
- Jacques Derrida: The Law of Genre, 1980
"So, each text has a mark, and that mark marks the text’s genre–which is the thing that makes a text a text. But the mark itself does not belong to the genre, and is only supplementary to the text itself (even though it’s also constitutive)."
- Jacques Derrida: The Law of Genre, 1980
"The clause or floodgate of genre declasses what it allows to be classed. It tolls the knell of genealogy or of genericity, which it however also brings forth to the light of day. Putting to death the very thing that it engenders, it cuts a strange figure; a formless form, it remains nearly invisible, it neither sees the day nor brings itself to light. Without it, neither genre nor literature come to light, but as soon as there is this blinking of an eye, this clause or this floodgate of genre, at the very moment that a genre or a literature is broached, at that very moment, degenerescence has begun, the end begins."
- Jacques Derrida: The Law of Genre, 1980 (212-213)
For example:
"how can I say 'I love you', if I know the love is you .. the word 'love' either as a verb or a noun would be destroyed in front of you"
- Jacques Derrida, Writing and Difference (French: L'écriture et la différence), 1967
Many writers/authors/poets have challenged traditional genre guidelines and accomplished their tasks well. Don't be discourage in your writing if it does not fit inside a present genre, just make certain that what you work is the very best you can create. A quick internet search will provide examples of writing that doesn't quite fit into an official designation. You can start here: http://genresofliterature.com/
Also, more of Derrida's statements concerning literature can be found in my book entitled Post Structuralism and Related Quotes: from Jacques Derrida, Judith Kristeva, and Many Others. http://amzn.to/1jGPb3x
* Derrida, Jacques. “The Law of Genre.” Trans. Avital Ronell. Critical Inquiry 7.1 (Autumn 1980), translated from the French
On the first page of this website, http://bit.ly/iionKS , you will find a video of Derrida discussing his writing process.