Pratt- Arts of the Contact Zone
Pratt defines a contact zone as “social spaces where cultures meet, clash, and grapple with each other." There are different cultures affecting ones around them and they find perspective from each other. They can learn about others as well as others opinions about themselves which is necessary to build and grow as a people. Autoethnographic text is where the cultures collaborate on art and transculturation is were cultures select a dominant form of art. She says communities don't all share language and such; there are dominating cultures and marginalized ones.
Pratt believes that the dominate cultures art is adopted to marginalized ones. Aristotle speaks of the ultimate form of poetry and has the outline for it. Pratt would agree with this because it is the adopted art form.
Did Pratt make up the term autoethnographic? If not, where/how else is it used
Breck, your analysis here is uncharacteristically flimsy; you introduce the main concepts of Pratt's article, but you do not explain them or put them in relation to one another; you also leave unstated what, precisely, Pratt is trying to communicate. Your association with Aristotle is also insufficient: pointing out a common interest is a starting point for comparison--not a comparison in and of itself. This looks like you were rushed; I know you can do better.
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