A contact zone is, according to Pratt, refers to "social spaces where cultures meet, clash, and grapple with eachother, often in contexts of highly asymmetrical relations of power, such as colonialism, slavery, or their aftermaths as they are lived out in my parts of the world today."
What i think Pratt meant in context to literacy, is how she compares literacy to different cultures. (???) I'm not sure if i fully understood the idea of her essay. I grasp that she was talking about literacy and she mentioned various cultures, predominantly spanish, but Chicanas and Andeans were mentioned, as well. I'm not sure if they were names of different types of people, also included in the Spanish language.
One thing i liked about her essay, and probably the one thing i mostly understood, is when she was talking about her son, i think, who collects baseball cards. She explained how baseball cards taught him everything he needed to know in life, such as arithmatic, geography, history, color schemes what it means to get cheated, personal values, market values, exchange, and many more. I thought it was interesting that you could learn so much from collecting baseball cards. And, her discovery of this passes as plausible. You can learn academically, socially, and economically.
What i did not like about the essay is the difficulty of reading. She uses many words i do not understand, therefore i lose interest and find myself just reading words, opposed to comprehending the material.
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