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The Coming Of The Spanish And The Pueblo Revolt Analysis

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In the reading according to, Mary Louise Pratt from Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation. “The contact zone which is used to refer to the space of colonial encounter, the space in which people geographically and historically separate come into contact with each other and establish ongoing relations, usually involving condition of coercion, radical inequality, and intractable conflict” (141). In the story entitled “The Coming of the Spanish and the Pueblo Revolt” written by Nequatewa, Edmund I have found three example of the contact zone: 1) According to Nequatewa in “The Coming of the Spanish and the Pueblo Revolt.” The first example I found that represent Mary Pratt contact zone is, “The people were very afraid of them, particularly

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