The Politics of Persuasion versus the Construction of Alternative Communities: Zines in the Writing Classroom by Aneil Rallin and Ian Barnard
We discuss how studying and creating zines in our composition classes allows our students to negotiate and explore the complexities of writing without the compulsions of many of the politically problematic commonplaces of composition pedagogy. We use zines to examine the unique ways in which their rhetorical devices address conflicts around questions of audience and…