My Contact Zone Theory

Marisa Samuelson English 131

Description

•Patterns of humanity• Similar Imagined

Communities•Conflicts with communities•Meaning in our existence

EVIDENCE•Mary Louise Pratt’s relation

between Baseball Cards and language• Safehouses and

Transculturazation • Hammad’s Universal Message

Andy Warhol

• “Everyone has their own dream America, and they have pieces of a fantasy America that they think is out there but they can’t see.”

Carl Gustav

• “As far as we can discern, the whole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being”