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 in contexts of highly asymmetrical relations of power..." Using this idea of the contact zone puts Jacobs’ efforts in a new light. Jacobs undertook her endeavor with the
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Chiang Professor Shaffer ENC1102 12 September 2011 Summary Assignment In “Animism and the Alphabet”‚ David Abram‚ a journalist in the Environmental Ethics and a founder of the Alliance for Wild Ethics (AWE)‚ asserts that through the evolution of the human language‚ there is a widening gap in the relationship between humanity and nature. Through the examples of pictographic systems and hieroglyphics‚ Abram suggests that our earliest forms of writing stemmed off of our ecological origins
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Understanding Pratt After talking to students in classroom who were assigned to do a project on Pratt‚ getting a frequent response “I didn’t read it‚ it’s too hard to comprehend” was an ordinary thing. Therefore‚ writing a response to Pratt’s essay in a language that is comprehendible by regular people can be very helpful to those struggling students. In "Arts of the Contact Zone" Pratt discusses the mix of two different cultures in one area. Where one person is born and lives in a "contact zone" he/she
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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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1-21-2014 Arts of the Contact Zone 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
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In the Mary Louise Pratt ’s essay‚ “Arts of the Contact Zone‚” Pratt reports the advantages and disadvantages that contact zones bring. Pratt emphasizes that a contact zone allows people to interact between cultures and break the cultural boundary. When a contact zone is established‚ people are able to gain a new perspective because they are able to interact with people of a foreign culture
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English Language and Literature Rationale word count: 300 words Total word count: 932 words Rationale: In the first semester of my International Baccalaureate English course‚ we analyzed Mary Louise Pratt’s “Arts of the Contact Zone”. Pratt discusses the implications of contact zones and transculturation by utilizing Guaman Poma’s example of learning Spanish to successfully write a letter and persuade the King of Spain. In this written task‚ presented in the form of journal entries
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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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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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