Mary Louise Pratt discusses a relatively foreign concept, the contact zone, in her essay "Arts of the Contact Zone." She defines the contact zone as being the "social spaces where cultures meet, clash, ... baseball. Almost a decade later, Sam and his friend Willie can start a conversation with an adult and they can understand everything discussed, even if it does not directly relate to baseball. A little later in the essay, Pratt tells us that the contact zone plays such an important role in autoethnographic text, text in which people undertake to describe themselves in ways that ... ...

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