1. Reading response- pratt
Mary Louise Pratt discusses a relatively foreign concept, the contact zone, in her essay "Arts of the Contact Zone." ... One of the examples that stick out in my head is her story of her son and baseball. ... A little later in the essay, Pratt tells us that the contact zone plays such an important role in autoethnographic text, text in which people undertake to describe themselves in ways that engage with representations other have make of them. For example, she states that all America's stories about American slaves will always have a Euramerican twist on it because that was who the p...
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- Grade Level: Undergraduate