is where people have established their life‚ their culture and their heart; sadly it has happened where people have been forced out of their 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
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something basic like what they did today‚ through other’s words. Some individuals are confident enough to write about themselves and talk freely to the public. In both cases‚ Mary Louise Pratt and John Wideman show these forms of speaking known as “ethnography” and “autoethnography” through their writings. Mary Louise Pratt uses many ideas and terms in her work “Arts of the Contact Zone”.
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Questions for a Second Reading: 1. In my opinion‚ the introductory story Pratt is telling about her sons and their baseball cards not only gets the reader interested in what is to come‚ but also gets them thinking a little about how worthy their education system. It sparked my interest to learn that her sons were learning their phonics not in school‚ but by reading the names and statistics of players on baseball cards. Later on‚ Pratt relates a story about Guaman Poma and his manuscript. She states that
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came to when I first read this text‚ but it was not until later that I came to understand this societal pressure to write in a certain way is still just another form of oppression. To define this type of oppression‚ I reference this section from Mary Louise Pratt’s "Art’s of the Contact Zone": "....in order to lay out some thoughts about writing and literacy in what I LIKE TO CALL CONTACT ZONES. I use this term to refer to social spaces where cultures meet‚ clash‚ and grapple with each other‚ often
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men play in the war. This question is addressed in Louise Edward’s book‚ Women Warriors and Wartime Spies of China. In her analysis‚ Edwards explores how women and men‚ femininity and masculinity‚ have been used to advocate for war. In her analysis‚ she claims that “womanhood‚ femininity and masculinity are useful militarisation strategies” (3). In support
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In any part in the world‚ there is no place to be but home. Home is a place where we feel safe and take refuge. But how we will feel if this is taken from us? The essay by Edward Said‚ “States‚” narrates the story of about his country‚ Palestine‚ and the struggle of his countrymen. He also shares the passion of his homeland which we can relate to. “States” exemplify the experiences and perceptions of how important a home is to a common Palestinian. Our country is a big part of who we are. As we
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Edwars Said was born a Palestinian Arab in Jerusalem in 1935‚ and was American through his father‚ Wadie Saïd‚ who was a U.S. Citizen. Wadie Saïd‚ his father moved to Cairo‚ before the birth of his son . He spent much of his childhood travelling back and forth from Cairo to Jerusalem‚ visiting relatives. Saïd said that in his childhood he lived “between worlds” — like Cairo (Egypt) and in Jerusalem (Palestine). Here are some of his words from this period of life: "I was an uncomfortably anomalous
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In "States" the author‚ Edward Said‚ discloses the story of his people‚ the Palestinians‚ in an epic to express to the world the disconcerting challenges endured by the struggling Palestinian culture. The underlying claim is that of which is fair for any people to aspire‚ the dream to be master in your own house. Thus translated into the ideals of nationalism: blood and belonging. Said uses a combination of both photographs and writing style to tell a story that is deeper than the plain text.
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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 difficult to understand the passage in its entirety the first time I
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A Picture Worth a Thousand Words Edward Said‚ a literary scholar and critic created the book After the Last Sky: Palestinian Lives (1986) along with the assistance of photographs from Jean Mohr. From this book we look at the piece “States” where Said talks about the exile of himself and the whole Palestinian nation in 1948. Said’s main goal and purpose of this essay was to provide a solid argument for the innocence of the Palestinians and he also wants to show the world how hard it was and still
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