...product of a transcultural contact zone. By contact zone, she means "the space of colonial encounters, the space in which peoples geographically and historically...conditions of coercion, radical inequality, and intractable conflict" (6). Accordingly, these nuevomexicana autoethnographies should be interpreted "not in terms...

...23. 1 borrow the term from Mary Louise Pratt, which she defines as "the space of colonial encounters, the space in which peoples geographically and historically...conditions of coercion, radical inequality, and intractable conflict." See her Imperial Eyes, Travel Writing and Transculturation (London: Routledge, 1992), 6....

...combine Hulme's insight with Mary Louise Pratt's concept of the "contact zone," which is a colonial space "in which peoples geographically and historically...conditions of coercion, radical inequality, and intractable contact" (6). The island is a space of competing and conflicting discourses that are about the contact...

...the term "contact zone." "Contact zone," she writes, "refer[s] to the space of colonial encounters, the space in which peoples geographically and historically...conditions of coercion, radical inequality, and intractable conflict... By using the term 'contact, ' I aim to foreground the interactive, improvisational dimensions...

...Writing and Transculturation (New York: Routledge, 1992), 6, that is, "a space of colonial encounters, the space in which peoples geographically and historically...into contact with each other and establish ongoing concrete and imaginary, are established to distance the "other," at least symbolically, and, in this...

...interface. In her book Imperial Eyes she explains this contact zone as "space of colonial encounters, the space in which peoples geographically and historically...conditions of coercion, radical inequality, and intractable conflict" (Pratt 1992:6). By deploying the term "contact," her intention is to substitute the one-sided...

...uses the term 'contact zone' to refer to "the space of colonial encounters, the space in which people geographically and historically separated come into...conditions of coercion, radical inequality, and intractable conflict"; Mary Louise Pratt, Imperial Eyes: Travel Writrag and Transculturation (London: Routledge,...

...Pratt uses, as she explains in her book Imperial Eyes, to refer to the space of colonial encounters, the space in which peoples geographically and historically...contact with each other and establish ongoing relations of some kind, even if these are often marked by conditions of coercion, radical inequality, and intractable...

...travel and translation (1992: 6-71 she defines "contact zone" as "the space of colonial encounters, the space in which peoples geographically and historically...conditions of coercion, radical inequality, and intractable conflict." Unlike the term "frontier," which is "grounded within a European expansionist perspective...

...43. 5. Mary Louise Pratt uses the term "contact zone" to refer "to the space of colonial encounters, the space in which peoples geographically and historically...conditions of coercion, radical inequality, and intractable conflict. I borrow the term 'contact' here from its use in linguistics, where the term contact language...