This volume presents a selection of essays discussing recent developments in genre theory. It furthermore reflects the current research of members of the Swiss Association of North American Studies. From the contents: 2) Linda Williams Tales of Sound and Fury or the Elephant of Melodrama 3) James Dorson Unformed Forms: Genre Theory, and the Trouble with Caroline Levines Forms 4) Audrey Loetscher Taking Carbon Culture to Court: The Eco-Legal Discourse and the Problematic Use of Genre in U.S. Climate Change Litigation 5) Sixta Quassdorf I would prefer not to: Routine and Agency in the Emerging Genre of the Office Novel 6) Bryan Banker The Modality in which Class is Lived: Literalizing Race and Class in The Expanse 7) Olga Thierbach-McLean The Trope of Asia in Cyberpunk Movies since the 1980s 8) Rebekka Nordmann The American Short Story: A Genre of Influence? 9) J. Jesse Ramirez Are Orcs Racist? Genre, Racecraft, and Bright 10) Courtney Jacobs and Ronald Schleifer Literary Genre and Emotional Experience: The After-Effects of Intergenerational Trauma in the Neo-Slave Narrative of Toni Morrisons Belovedweiterlesen