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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