Zines in Third Space: Radical Cooperation and Borderlands Rhetoric

Develops third-space theory by engaging with zines produced by feminists and queers of color.

Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Borderlands Rhetorics and Third-Space Sites Recognizing Borderlands Rhetorics in Zines as Third-Space Sites Borderlands Peregrinations: Traveling Beyond Borders and Binaries in Third Space Third Space Imaginary, Coalitional Consciousness, and Zines Reading, Writing, and Re-presenting as Potentially Transformational Practices Exploring Third-space Zines and the Chapters to Follow 2. The Role of Imagination in Challenging Everyday Dominations: Articulation at Work in Producing Antiracist Egalitarian Social Agendas Community Scribes: Lived Knowledges and Community Literacies Code-Switching and the Identification of One An-Other Academic and Non-Academic Third Space Sites of The Politics and Practices of Articulation 3. Embodied Intersections: Reconsidering Subject Formation Beyond Binary Borders Reversals and refractions: Shattering the Normal(izing) Gaze R E V E R S O: Re-Views and Re-Considerations Embodied Resistance and Coalitional Subjectivity Embodied Knowledge as Practice and Power 4. Queer-y-ing Consumption and Production: Critical Inquiries and Third-Space Subversions Reconfiguring the Objects and Subjects of Consumption and Production: Brrls in the Material World Queer-y-ing cporatized Knowledges: Revised Practices of Consumption and Production Queer-y-ing Histories: Dissident Performances and Discourses Re-configuringRelations and Imagining Alternatives Queer-y-ing the Cycles of Production and Consumption: Third-Space Thrifting, Second-Order Consumption, and Trades The Re(in)Formed and Conscientious Consumer and Producer 5. Epilogue: Third Space Theory and Borderland Rhetorics Applied Theory and the Everyday: Academic and Non-Academic Contexts Third-Space Peregrinations and Lived Borderlands Rhetorics Why Zines/Why Now: Unleashing Radical (Rhetorical) Third-Space Potentials Entremundista: Third Space Navigations and Zines as Familiar Terrain Notes Bibliography

About the Author :
Adela C. Licona is Associate Professor of English at the University of Arizona. She is the coeditor (with Robbin D. Crabtree and David Alan Sapp) of Feminist Pedagogy: Looking Back to Move Forward.

Review :
"One of the primary reasons this book is so valuable is because it demonstrates how community literacy is promoted, engaged, and circulated in the multimodal genre of zines ... Zines in Third Space models academic scholarship that recognizes and values community as a site for the sharing and learning of new knowledge and literacy practices ... Licona's practice of word play is a performance of the very borderlands rhetorics she identifies and analyzes in zines." - Community Literacy Journal "Zines in Third Space throws light upon an important and often neglected space of alternative culture by looking at the media generated by people of color, who both use the subcultural media to explore and articulate their ideas and lives in a way they feel cannot be done through more mainstream channels, yet also understand (and articulate) the ways in which the white, middle-class dominated subcultures create new sets of constraints and limitations. Within subcultural studies, and media studies in general, this is a critical area of study. The author knows the world of which she speaks." - Stephen Duncombe, author of Notes from Underground: Zines and the Politics of Alternative Culture