Arts of the Contact Zone Q2R#3&4 In “”Arts of the Contact Zone” Pratt gets the point across that cultures should recognize the “contact zone.” By giving examples like Poma’s writing and a homework assignment that her son had‚ Pratt defines the contact zone as the “meeting of cultures with asymmetric power.” (p 487) The word “cultures” refers to every type of group in my eyes‚ groups such as sports teams and even classrooms. A classroom can be defined as a contact zone because the Teacher and
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homeland. Great opening sentences. Mary Louise Pratt‚ Kenji Yoshino and Edward Said all present very good methods of maintaining one’s national identity in their essays. In Mary Louise Pratt’s essay Arts of the Contact Zone she gives examples of people who are in a contact zone. Contact zones are where people are meeting other cultures‚ and they have to remember not to lose their own. (this was a run-on so I made it into two senteces)One of the Arts of the contact zone that describes what has happened
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The Mission of an Autoethnography In Mary Louise Pratt’s essay‚ “Arts of the Contact Zone‚” we are introduced to the idea of contact zones‚ autoethnography‚ and new ways of looking at common ideas. I wanted to see some examples of what she was really talking about. After reading John Edgar Wideman’s “Our Time” we can see that Pratt’s ideas and terms are accurate because they can be applied to this reading as well as others. "Our Time" is an autoethnography because it uses diffeerent points of
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be analytical‚ and curious of their surroundings. Mary Louise Pratt describes this as creating a contact zone where parody‚ critique‚ and unseemly comparisons create social disruptions in which students are challenged. In her essay “Arts of the Contact Zone‚” she proposes that classrooms should take up this style of educating. What would a contact zone in a classroom perform like? Out of all the elements that are capable of creating a contact zone‚ parody is one of the more familiar choices that
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Mary Louise Pratt wrote A Contact Zone‚ a short story about how many different cultures interact through Transculturation and contact zones. A contact zone is defined as “is the gap in which transculturation takes place- where two different cultures meet and inform each other‚ in uneven ways” (mariexotoni). In my owns words‚ a contact zone can be where two different people from different backgrounds‚ teachings‚ and traditions come together and share their experiences. Contact zones can be seen
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Arts of the Contact Zone For the twelfth grade English curriculum‚ we had to read and learn about the Arts of the Contact Zone by Mary Louise Pratt. This essay opened up a whole new concept for us. The new term "contact zone" appeared and Pratt defined it as "social spaces where cultures meet‚ clash‚ and grapple with each other‚ often in contexts of highly asymmetrical relations of power‚ such as colonialism‚ slavery‚ or their aftermaths as they are lived out in many parts of the world today
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To me‚ Pratt introduces autoethnography as a genre of resistance. Autoethnography presents a culture from the perspective of the culture as opposed to the traditional ethnographies where a member of a different culture (typically a dominant culture) immerses himself/herself in the studied culture to present a representation of that culture. Pratt’s essay explained fully what the contact zone was as she stated it was “ social spaces where cultures meet
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Contact zones of the Olympics As Mary Louise Pratt defined in “Arts of the Contact Zone”‚ contact zones are social spaces where cultural interactions happen; including cultural exchange‚ conflicts‚ understanding‚ and sometimes unbalance of power in contact zones. Relating closely to cultural diversity‚ contact zones definitely exist in global events around the world‚ when people from different places gather together and communicate with one another. The Olympics‚ as one of the most influential global
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The term of “contact zone” seems pretty simple to understand at the first look but what does it truly means? Mary Louise defines this term as “… social spaces where cultures meet‚ clash‚ and grapple with each other‚ often in contexts of highly asymmetrical power” (Pratt 575). In a “contact zone” a person meets with two different cultures‚ going through a struggle to maintain a certain identity. As for me‚ I have faced this contact zone when I left my country to study abroad in United States. I have
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as well as the production end: it will read very differently to people in different positions in the contact zone.” (page 492) I found this passage difficult because it uses many terms that I was only introduced to when I started reading Mary Louise Pratt’s essay. It is hard to follow because it uses difficult terms and packs a lot of information into a small amount of writing. Mary Louise Pratt introduces several concepts in the same passage‚ which was both overwhelming and distracting. It was
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