...representations, is the same. 23 Moreover, in the 'contact zone,' described by Mary Louise Pratt as 'the space in which peoples geographically and historically...contact with each other and establish ongoing relations' (6), anthropologists have pointed out 'the symbiotic nature of cultural construction and the two-way,...

...Louise Pratt describes: "The term 'contact zone' . . . refer[s] to the space of colonial encounters, the space in which peoples geographically and historically...inequality, and intractable conflict" (Imperial Eyes 6). By incorporating her Hopi and Miwok heritage (as well as the perspective of the Taino tribe) into the...

...culture. She claims that cross-cultural communication occurs in "contact zones," a term referring to "the space in which peoples geographically and historically...inequality, and intractable conflict" (Imperial Eyes 1992: 6). The perspective of Pratt's contact zone allows us to read in Jim Sheridan's The Boxer (1997)...

...definition of transculturation similarly emphasizes negotiation between differently empowered agents in the contact zone, "the space in which peoples geographically...conditions of coercion, radical inequality, and intractable conflict."80 Focusing on these power differentials, the contact zone affords an appropriate means of...

...serves a range of interests. If as a "contact zone," Hawai'i has been "the space of colonial encounters, the space in which peoples geographically and historically...coercion, radical inequality, and intractable conflict" (Pratt, Imperial Eyes 6), within it the search for "authenticity" as such has been arguably more a...

...profitable Mary Louise Pratt (1992, 6-7), established this term as "the space of colonial encounters, the space in which peoples geographically and historically...coercion, radical inequality, and intractable conflict. [...] 'Contact zone' in my discussion is often synonymous with 'colonial frontier.' But while the latter...

..."voice-consciousness" surfaced in a particularly complex encounter, a "contact zone" in Mary Louise Pratt's terms, "a space in which peoples geographically and historically...coercion, radical inequality, and intractable conflict"; in short, a social space "where disparate cultures meet, clash, and grapple with each other, often...

..."contact zone" of the kind described by Mary Louise Pratt. According to Pratt the contact zone is a space in which "peoples geographically and historically...conditions of coercion, radical inequality, and intractable conflict."7 Although Pratt writes of colonial encounters, the conditions of historical separation,...

...Abel, however, is still blind to the regenerative potential that his borderland identity as of being "the space in which peoples geographically and historically...contact with each other and establish ongoing relations" (Pratt 1992: 6) can eventually provide for his search for a sustaining community. That similar to Antonio...

...geography as well as that of travel writing, is used to refer 'to the space of colonial encounters, the space in which peoples geographically and historically...contact with each other and establish ongoing relations' (Pratt 1992: 6). It seems then, that this is an example of a literary theorist who has fully realised...