Intimate Ephemera: Reading Young Lives in Australian Zine Culture
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Intimate Ephemera: Reading Young Lives in Australian Zine Culture
By (Author) Anna Poletti
Melbourne University Press
Melbourne University Press
5th May 2008
Australia
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Physical Properties
Paperback
232
Width 139mm, Height 211mm, Spine 29mm
390g
Description
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.
Author Bio
Anna Poletti has been involved in do-it-yourself cultural projects since the late 1990s, including managing the National Young Writer's Festival (2000) and coordinating the This Is Not Art group of festivals (2003) in Newcastle, NSW. She currently lectures in Communications and Writing at Monash University.
