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Mary Louise Pratt’s essay titled Arts of the Contact Zone explains how she perceives pieces of texts as autoethnographies. She defines this as texts “in which people undertake to describe themselves in ways that engage with representations others have made of them” (319). Such texts exist in today’s world in the form of songs and raps. In these particular autoethnographic texts, the musical artists create “contact zones” (319). At these “zones,” the artists clash with images others have made of them. Oftentimes, the “other” refers to a person or community who deems themselves far more superior than those they are representing. Recently, artists like Beyoncé and Kendrick Lamar have used their influential positions in the music industry to... View More »