Thanks for giving me road directions on how to send stuff to this list. I
felt lost there for awhile.  Feel free to post my comment of last week; I
don't think I'm up to the technological knowledge required for "ripostes"
yet!  I have been reading all the dialogue on Contact Zones coming in, and
it seems to me a useful discussion.  For my part, I'd like to see the
particularity of Pratt's analysis preserved.  I agree with Serena and Malea
that the issue of unequal power relations is important. Also, isn't Pratt
focusing on how Writers, in the contact zone, produce hybridized texts
because of those asymmetrical relations of power?  For language and discourse
as space of ideological struggle we have Bakhtin?? I wonder, though, if
there's not the fantasy in reading of escape from struggle?  the illusion
of being spoken to "directly"? some kind of perverse seduction?? that is
anti-social?  When I'm reading, I'm often zoned-out. . .  Well, toodles,
Cindy