This paper will be a genre analysis. It must account for three (changing and neb

This paper will be a genre analysis. It must account for three (changing and nebulous, but relatively stable) groups; those who have determined the shape of the genre, those who are writing in that genre, and those who read the genre. There may be a fair amount of overlap between these.
You can either approach the paper by focusing on a single instance of “text” broadly construed, in which you will identify how the structures, shape, and form of the text you are examining come into being, enable the rhetorical acts of the creator/author, and enable the reader of that text to produce meaning. This approach touches on broader sociocultural concepts, but does not take them as the focus.
OR, you can approach the paper by focusing on a broader collection of texts, a specific “genre” which exists with certain social rules. In this perspective, you are looking at how this genre is shaped by broader social conditions and in turn responds to these conditions. The focus here is broader than the other; it can touch on specific texts as examples but does not focus on specific texts.
We are hoping to use science fiction as the genre and love Octavia Butler as an author to reference, but do not have a preference between the two approaches described above.