...accurate to see it more complexly, as a collision of cultures in what she calls "the contact zone," "social spaces where disparate cultures meet, clash and grapple with each other, often in highly assymetrical relations of domination and subordination."8 She stresses the idea it is inadequate simply...

...and politically. Pratt calls the writing about elsewhere narratives of and from the contact zones: "social spaces where disparate cultures meet, clash,...each other, often in highly asymmetrical relations of domination and subordination" (4). And these zones still exert their force upon those who meet there,...

...Imperial Eyes (1992),38 Mary Louise Pratt develops a model of "criticism in the contact zone," refering to "social spaces where disparate cultures meet, clash,...each other, often in highly asymmetrical relations of domination and subordination."39 Analyzing the history of travel writing, she argues that this genre...

...argument from that of Mary Louise Pratt. In her introduction, she talks usefully about "contact zones" — "social spaces where disparate cultures meet, clash,...each other, often in highly asymmetrical relations of domination and subordination" (1992, 4). For her, however, the contact zone is a place where cultures...

...Westerners of different national origins and backgrounds within what Pratt has called contact zones, "social spaces where disparate cultures meet, clash...each other, often in highly asymmetrical relations of domination and subordination - like colonialism, slavery, or their aftermaths as they are lived out...

...Madison. 1 . I am adapting Mary Louise Pratt's resonant term "contact zones," which she defines as "social spaces where disparate cultures meet, clash,...each other, often in highly asymmetrical relations of domination and subordination — like colonialism, slavery, or their aftermaths as they are lived out...

...continuum of positions within it. Such a site is one of those that Pratt refers to as "contact zones," or "social spaces where disparate cultures meet, clash,...each other, often in highly asymmetrical relations of domination and subordination — like colonialism, slavery, or their aftermaths as they are lived out...

...between white and black settlemem. Such a comact zone is defined by Mary Louise Pratt as a social site "where disparate cultures meet, clash, and grapple...each other, often in highly asymmetrical relations of domination and subordination." 4 The Eastern Cape experienced repeated wars between settler and indigene...

...groups as a process of transversing "contact zones," a term she uses to "refer to social spaces where cultures meet, clash, and grapple with each other, often in highly asymmetrical relations of power" (Pratt, 1991, p. 34). Intercultural relations between African Americans and Korean Americans...

...literary critic Mary Louise Pratt discusses "the perils of writing in what I like to call 'contact zones,' social spaces where disparate cultures meet, clash,...each other, often in highly asymmetrical relations of domination and subordination."32 The act of translation from aboriginal oral cultures into European...