Zines in Third Space

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.

"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

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgments1. Borderlands Rhetorics and Third-Space SitesRecognizing Borderlands Rhetorics in Zines as Third-Space SitesBorderlands Peregrinations: Traveling Beyond Borders and Binaries in Third SpaceThird Space Imaginary, Coalitional Consciousness, and ZinesReading, Writing, and Re-presenting as Potentially Transformational PracticesExploring Third-space Zines and the Chapters to Follow2. The Role of Imagination in Challenging Everyday Dominations: Articulation at Work in Producing Antiracist Egalitarian Social AgendasCommunity Scribes: Lived Knowledges and Community LiteraciesCode-Switching and the Identification of One An-OtherAcademic and Non-Academic Third Space Sites of ThePolitics and Practices of Articulation3. Embodied Intersections: Reconsidering Subject Formation Beyond Binary BordersReversals and refractions: Shattering the Normal(izing) GazeR E V E R S O: Re-Views and Re-ConsiderationsEmbodied Resistance and Coalitional SubjectivityEmbodied Knowledge as Practice and Power4. Queer-y-ing Consumption and Production: Critical Inquiries and Third-Space SubversionsReconfiguring the Objects and Subjects of Consumption and Production: Brrls in the Material WorldQueer-y-ing cporatized Knowledges: Revised Practices of Consumption and ProductionQueer-y-ing Histories: Dissident Performances and DiscoursesRe-configuringRelations and Imagining AlternativesQueer-y-ing the Cycles of Production and Consumption: Third-Space Thrifting, Second-Order Consumption, and TradesThe Re(in)Formed and Conscientious Consumer and Producer5. Epilogue: Third Space Theory and Borderland RhetoricsApplied Theory and the Everyday: Academic and Non-Academic ContextsThird-Space Peregrinations and Lived Borderlands RhetoricsWhy Zines/Why Now: Unleashing Radical (Rhetorical) Third-Space PotentialsEntremundista: Third Space Navigations and Zines as Familiar TerrainNotesBibliography