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Dicussion 1. Contact Zones are places where "cultures meet, clash, and grapple with each other, often in contexts of highly asymmetrical relations of power, such as colonialism, slavery, or their aftermaths..." Pratt goes on to describe two phenomena that occur in the contact zone: autoethnography and transculturation. Pick one of these terms and explain what the term means, why it happens in contact zones, and how it can help us to understand contact zones better. How does this concept push back against or complicate Benedict Anderson's concept of an "imagined community"?
Dicussion 2. Why is it important for groups to have both contact zones and "safe houses"?
Dicussion 3. How do Contact Zones challenge, change, or push back against the idea of "inside/outside" when discussing colonialism, tourism, and native?
Making Connections (at least 300 words)
Dicussion 4. Apply one quote or idea from Pratt to A Small Place. How can you understand what Jamaica Kincaid is doing better after reading "Arts of the Contact Zone"?
Dicussion 5. Pick one quote below from Nedra Reynolds and apply it or connect it to the reading.
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