contact zones" as "social spaces where disparate cultures meet, clash, and grapple with each other, often in highly asymmetrical relations of domination and subordination — like colonialism, slavery, or their aftermaths as they are lived out across... Post-colonial Studies: The Key Concepts - Page 234by Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, Helen Tiffin - 2000 - 275 pagesLimited preview - About this book
| Jane K. Cowan, Marie-B鈋n鈋dicte·Dembour, Richard A. Wilson - Law - 2001 - 276 pages
...further complicated the variety of cultural logics at play. Pratt describes such fields as 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... | |
| Isabel Hoving - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 396 pages
...be indispensable at times, eg, in the political struggle. 22. Pratt describes contact zones as the "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... | |
| Myroslav Shkandrij - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 386 pages
...discourses discussed might be viewed as forming what Mary Louise Pratt has called a "combat zone" in which "cultures meet, clash and grapple with each other, often in highly asymmetrical relations of domination and subordination.""5 The Russian-Ukrainian power relationship was a complex one that displayed... | |
| S. Petrilli - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2001 - 288 pages
...exotic lands. And yet Imperial Eyes is of interest here for the strong emphasis which is placed on the "social spaces where disparate cultures meet, clash, and grapple with each other" (ibidenrA), and, if not primarily, for the etymological usage of the word "contact". Pratt employs... | |
| Louis Owens - Social Science - 2001 - 292 pages
...space" and that communication between cultures takes place within what Mary Louise Pratt calls those "social spaces where disparate cultures meet, clash, and grapple with each other" (4). Such seams constitute what I prefer to call "frontier" space, wherein discourse is multidirectional... | |
| Alison Griffiths - Performing Arts - 2002 - 512 pages
...cultures intermingle in improvised and unpredictable ways is a more useful paradigm. According to Pratt, contact zones are "social spaces where disparate cultures...each other, often in highly asymmetrical relations of domination and subordination" (Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation, 4). 33. Luc De Heusch... | |
| Jesús Benito, Ana María Manzanas - History - 2002 - 228 pages
...to call, "fossilized contact histories." Pratt defines "contact zones" in the following terms: [...] 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... | |
| Kirsten Fischer - History - 2002 - 284 pages
...regions located at the outer edges of European knowledge and setdement. Pratt defines contact zones as "social spaces where disparate cultures meet, clash,...each other, often in highly asymmetrical relations of domination and subordination." Mary Louise Pratt, Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transmigration... | |
| Amy Bass - Political Science - 466 pages
...transnational framework with what Mary Louise Pratt has usefully termed "contact zones," defined as "social spaces where disparate cultures meet, clash,...each other, often in highly asymmetrical relations of domination and subordination."33 Accordingly, an international scope of history is not one that includes... | |
| William Mejías López - Puerto Rican literature - 2002 - 1916 pages
...MiccinelliCera en Nápoles) (Hampe Martínez 1998). 8 Pratt (1992: 4) define el "contad zone" como "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... | |
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