Borderland Zines

Borderland

Zines Media

Between

Cultures

What’s A Zine?

Small-Scale Self-Published Do-It-Yourself

Media

Cheap and easy booklets and pamphlets used to talk about anything from punk music to smoothie recipes, fanfiction to radical politics.

Why Study Them?

Small, unregulated circulation = No restrictions on content or form Cheap = No market incentive Low cost = Accessible Personal, unrestricted form = Intimate story telling

SO What’s This Zine authors who live on the border of two or more cultures.

How do these authors reconcile their conflicting identities?

Language? Rhetoric? Images?

Creative Methods? Text Sources?

is Paper About?

Acculturation

Assimilation

Adaption Globalization

Diaspora

Stereotyping

What’s in The Anne Hays “Reading the Margins: Embedded Narratives in Feminist Personal Zines” (2017)

Adela Licona “(B)orderland’s Rhetoric and Representations: The Transformative Potential of Feminist Third-Space Scholarship and Zines” (2005) Zines in Third Space: Racial Cooperation and Borderlands Rhetoric (2012)

David Wallace “Alternative Rhetoric and Morality: Writing from the Margins” (2009)

The Literature?

So What’s THE

To utilize zines nature to foster per communication, and discourse analysi transcultural zine intercultural com problems of accultu adaption and stereo

THE POINT?

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