Dr. Pratt:
- is the Silver Professor, Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis, and Professor of Spanish in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at New York University
- contended in her first book, Toward a Speech Act Theory of Literary Discourse,that the structure of oral stories informs written literary narrative
- coined the oft-used term “contact zone” to describe early colonial encounters with indigenous peoples in the Americas
- published Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation; fifteen years after its original appearance in 1992, Imperial Eyes was expanded and re-published
- hails from Listowel, Ontario
The quotable Pratt: “Redundancy, discontinuity, and unreality. These are some of the chief coordinates of the text of Euroimperialism, the stuff of its power to constitute the everyday with neutrality, spontaneity, numbing repetition” (Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation 2).
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