Intimate ephemera : reading young lives in Australian zine culture / Anna Poletti.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Poletti, Anna, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Publishers and publishing--Australia.

Publishers and publishing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 310 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Carlton, Victoria : Melbourne University Press, [2008]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Intimate Ephemera is the first major study of autobiographical writing produced and consumed in a youth subculture. Investigating the uses of the zine form for life writing, it examines the recurrent themes in texts circulating in Australian zine culture, including depression, consumerism, popular culture and political identity. Intimate Ephemera also examines zine culture as a unique community of life writing and reading, where handmade texts circulate in an economy of gifting and exchange utilising the postal system. The book analyses the material diversity of zines as handmade objects, examining the use of the photocopier and craft techniques in these limited edition publications, bringing a focus to the role of the text-object in communicating personal experience.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgments

Author's Note

Introduction

1 Rethinking Resistance, Authenticity and Autobiography

2 Zines making Zinesters

3 Narrating and (Re)Figuring the Bedroom

4 Consuming Selves

5 'Singing Hollow Winds': Narratives of Depression

6 Materialising Intimacy: Reading the Perzine as Autobiographical Object

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780522855647

0522855644

9780522859867

0522859860

OCLC:

1493617583