Scrapbooks and Zines

Before reading Katriel and Farrell’s “Scrapbooks as Cultural Texts: An American Art of Memory,” I thought there would be no way to argue how scrapbooks are everyday writing, for writing involves words. However after reading the text I believe the authors have changed my mind. They created much support and well thought out arguments for how scrapbooks fall into the genre of history and how scrapbooks require a unique style and creative thoughts by the author, which are both extremely important factors which make up everyday writing. The two authors go into detail about how scrapbooks can be a way for someone to narrate there own life through the form of pictures, for they hold memories and stories in a book, just like so many forms of everyday writing.

I also believe that Zines are examples of everyday writing, for they are a way for someone to expand on their own thoughts and experiences in a magazine format. Because these zines are personal and created however the author wishes, they can have a unique structure, or style, which truly exemplify the everyday writing of the author. Just like scrapbooks, the pictures the author chooses to include in their own zine can tell a story just like writings in a more traditional form of everyday writing.