| Rosa Linda Fregoso - History - 2003 - 240 pages
..."contact zones," a term coined by Marv Louise Pratr, to describe "the space of colonial encounters, the space in which peoples geographically and historically...involving conditions of coercion, radical inequality and intractible conflict."34 One of these contact zones took place in 183o, between Californios and Anglo... | |
| Alan Rice - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 260 pages
...redolent for my study here, as it illuminates 'the space of colonial encounters, the space in which people geographically and historically separated come into...coercion, radical inequality and intractable conflict' (ibid.: 6). These dynamic lives, though, warn us against an overdeterministic reading of diasporan... | |
| Jael Miriam Silliman, Jael Silliman - Religion - 2003 - 212 pages
...that Mary Louise Pratt has defined as 'the space of colonial encounters, the spaces in which people geographically and historically separated come into...conditions of coercion, radical inequality and intractable conflict.'2 Because Saleh and Elias were from a minority trading community and not from the dominant... | |
| Elizabeth K. Eder - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 300 pages
...divides. Pratt has referred to the space of such encounters as "contact zones," which she defines as "the space in which peoples geographically and historically...into contact with each other and establish ongoing relations."6 In order to understand more about how US and Japanese women were constituted in and by... | |
| Anthony R. Guneratne, Wimal Dissanayake - History - 2003 - 260 pages
...zone," defined by Mary Louise Pratt as the space in which "subjects previously separated" encounter each other and "establish ongoing relations, usually...conditions of coercion, radical inequality, and intractable conflict."20 Rocha's neo-baroque Afro-avant-gardist aesthetic thus figures the discontinuous, dissonant,... | |
| Candace Slater - Social Science - 2001 - 390 pages
...transculturation is a phenomenon of the contact zone, which she defines as "the space of colonial encounters in which peoples geographically and historically separated come into contact with each other and estahlish ongoing relations, usually involving conditions of coercion, radical inequality, and intractahle... | |
| Denise Brennan - Business & Economics - 2004 - 300 pages
...the term in her book on travel writing: "[Contact zone] refer[sl to the space of colonial encounters, the space in which peoples geographically and historically...coercion, radical inequality, and intractable conflict" (Pratt 1992: 6). 2 Individuals are considered residents of the Dominican Republic when they have remained... | |
| Jacob Kẹhinde Olupona - Religion - 2004 - 374 pages
...zone as a place of tense cultural interface. The "contact zone" is the space of colonial encounters, the space in which peoples geographically and historically...coercion, radical inequality, and intractable conflict... often within radically asymmetrical relations of power. By using the term contact, I aim to foreground... | |
| Virginia Burrus - History - 2004 - 236 pages
...Leather, 202, 143. 42. Cf. the concept of "contact zone" as "the space of colonial encounters . . . in which peoples geographically and historically separated...coercion, radical inequality, and intractable conflict," developed by Mary Louise Pratt, Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation (London: Routledge,... | |
| Stavros Stavrou Karayanni - Performing Arts - 2006 - 261 pages
...imperial subject in the contact zone. In the space of the contact zone, Mary Louise Pratt explains, "peoples geographically and historically separated...coercion, radical inequality, and intractable conflict" (6) . Using his erudite expertise, Curtis manipulates Kuchuk's dance, depicting it simultaneously as... | |
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