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Guernica Rhetorical Analysis
Guernica is an online literary magazine of ideas, art, poetry, and fiction with content published twice monthly. In addition, Guernica has a blog (Guernica Daily) that is updated every weekday. Specifically, the footnote provides information about the magazine itself that describes the website’s audience, staff, contact information and contributors, which can be seen here at the footer of the page(Guernica). Guernica is a literary magazine that pushes ones thinking with exciting and complex writings, photographs, and even videos catered to the interests of creative and educated people alike.
At first glance, there is an artistic, as well as literary element within the information throughout the site. The color scheme is dark throughout the website. Cooler colors are seen throughout the website with warm red accents complimenting the content. Cool colors are usually read as calming and are used to create less emphasis than warm colors. (Ball 2018, pg 46). The front-end has a headline story paired with an image that takes up a good portion of the page. This indicates importance of the story to the website, most likely incorporating the websites values and themes.
The navigation of the site is simple and easy to use due to its arrangement of pages and structure of the pages. The top navigation bar indicates clear categorical differences of which the user of the site could explore throughout various topics on the website. The “more” page indicates additional pages of which a user could explore more topics catered to specific categories, which I will be touching on a bit more coming up. The site contains both fictional and informational texts as well, of which could become cluttered and make the separation between fact and fiction a bit blurred, however, the organization creates an easy way of navigating through the topics on Guernica.
Looking at one of the many tabs in the navigation bar, you can find a number of different articles to choose from based on their category. For example, under the politics tab, you can find various types of writings such as the report called “The Boarder Merchant.” This is a report from Aliyeh Ataei in regard to the behind the scenes look at the boarders of Afghanistan and Iran. In this report, a man named Mohammad Osman regularly sells people across the boarder to either access a better life or find transportation into turkey. From Turkey, people then find their way into Europe to escape the hardships in much of the Middle East.
Looking onward, creativity is expressed through the elegant linguistic forms of poetry. One poem called “The Empty City” seeks to push one’s thinking and express one’s creativity through making a metaphorical connection with an empty city to a lost heart..
For those who seek a different form of content, there is even a video option under here in “more” of which users can search for things such a this video where college students debate with inmates together on gun control.
Guernica is a well-themed literary magazine that pushes ones thinking with exciting and complex writings, poems, videos, and beyond. I think that the magazine is well organized and has topics that are quite interesting to get lost in; leaving something someone like me could relate to all while learning from the content.
Works Cited
Abdoh, Salar. “The Border Merchant.” Guernica, 6 Nov. 2019, https://www.guernicamag.com/the-border-merchant/.
“Advertise.” Guernica, https://www.guernicamag.com/about/advertise/. Accessed 10 Feb. 2020.
Ball, Cheryl E., et al. Writer/Designer: A Guide to Making Multimodal Projects. “Chapter 1: What Are Multimodal Projects?” Second Edition. Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2018. Print.
Bazzett, Michael. “The Empty City.” Guernica, 10 Jan. 2020, https://www.guernicamag.com/the-empty-city/.
“Guernica – A Magazine of Global Arts & Politics.” Guernica, https://www.guernicamag.com/. Accessed 10 Feb. 2020
“Video on Guernica.” Guernica, https://www.guernicamag.com/format/video/. Accessed 10 Feb. 2020.
