DanZine is the portmanteau of Daniel + fanzine & paronym of dancing. Issue #1 (v.01) is the not illustrious but illustrated first iteration of Daniel Barrera-Rivera's irregular periodical—a brief, briny, giddy, and mercurial antipublication.
The project springs from Dr. Tanja Kapp's 2024-25 seminar Aquatic Environments in Postcolonial Literature in the University of Tübingen, Germany. Her vision of the blue humanities, critical curiosity, and intelligence opened my mind and buoyed me up to take this journey—thank you!
This bookish artifact, this literary and critical experiment is a celebration of imperfection. Its maladroit execution unclothes the charming infelicities of my ungainly ambition. Like Whitman's book, it's one of the roughs.
DanZine takes its form from the prehispanic codex or tira. It flows left to right but you can freely wade through its pools and currents. Want to know where to start? Let me give you a clue:
The sea is blue.
The sea is red.
The sea's the glue
of what you read.
Here is a sample of DanZine #1 (v.01)
DanZine #1 v.01 - Cover
The Sea Is (p. 2)
The Sea Is (p. 3)
Odyssey Spilhaus (pp. 17-18)
Nativity (pp. 19-20)
Tira viewed from left to right