Mary Louise Pratt

Biographic Data

ID95687
NAMEMary Louise Pratt
GIVEN NAMESMary Louise
FAMILY NAMEPratt
SIGNATUREPRATT M L
AFFILIATIONSNew York University
ORCID0000-0003-1985-7779
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS50
TOTAL CITATIONS110
AUTHOR COUNT50
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1977
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX5

  • Lessons for Losing

    Open AccessMary Louise PrattARTICLECritical Times2023

    This essay examines how two very different thinkers address the question of how to live loss. The first is the Canadian Cree artist and writer Tomson Highway, author most recently of Laughing with the Trickster: On Sex, Death, and Accordians, and the second is US environmental writer Elizabeth Rush, author of Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore. In two very different modalities of knowledge making, we see a shared quest for a planetary…

  • El giro planetario y la crisis de futuros. Comentario breve al texto de Rosanna Reguillo

    Open AccessMary Louise PrattARTICLEEncartes2023References: 3

    The turn of the millennium inaugurated a new phase in the history of humanity. From the post- boom of the '90s, we moved to a new global consciousness, a product of cybernetics and ecological catastrophe. Humanity faces a crisis of futurity. The work of Signa Lab reflects this global turn in both its cybernetic and environmental aspects. Over three decades, the work of its founder, Rossana Reguillo, has been marked by the same political commitmen…

  • CFP: Politics of Language, Multilingualism, and Translation in American Studies: A Special Issue of American Quarterly (September 2021)

    Open AccessVicente L Rafael, Mary Louise PrattARTICLEAmerican Quarterly2020

    CFP: Politics of Language, Multilingualism, and Translation in American StudiesA Special Issue of American Quarterly (September 2021) Vicente L. Rafael and Mary Louise Pratt We are calling for contributions for a special issue on the politics of language, multilingualism, and translation broadly understood in American studies. Our overarching question is what difference does linguistic difference make in our—whoever we are—understanding of what c…

  • Airways

    Mary Louise PrattARTICLEAnthropology Now2020Cited by: 2

  • Decolonization: Who needs it

    Mary Louise PrattARTICLELanguage Culture and Society2019Cited by: 1

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  • Afterword

    Open AccessMary Louise PrattARTICLEEnvironment and Planning E Nature…2019References: 2

  • Afterword

    Open AccessMary Louise PrattARTICLEEnvironment and Planning E Nature…2019References: 6

  • Afterword

    Open AccessMary Louise PrattARTICLEEnvironment and Planning E Nature…2019References: 2

    This brief afterword uses the image of the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City to reflect on the north-south contact zones of the Americas, then goes on to examine how the five essays collected in this special issue of Social Text, which were presented at the 2008 Tepoztlán Institute for the Transnational History of the Americas inhabit that space and inquire after its unequal, often violent dynamics. I comment on the new archi…

  • Aesthetics, politics, and sociolinguistic analysis

    Open AccessMary Louise PrattARTICLELanguage Sciences2018

  • African and European Knowledge in the Science of Ornithology

    Mary Louise PrattARTICLEJournal of Southern African Studies2018

    "African and European Knowledge in the Science of Ornithology." Journal of Southern African Studies, 44(6), pp. 1161–1162

  • Is This Gitmo, or Club Med

    Open AccessMary Louise PrattARTICLEAmerican Quarterly2016References: 1

    Is This Gitmo, or Club Med? Mary Louise Pratt (bio) They’re living in the tropics, they’re well fed, they’ve got everything they could possibly want. —Dick Cheney, on prisoners at Guantánamo, June 2005 If you type “Vieques” into a search engine today, in 2016, you will be bombarded by travel ads, first from big commercial outfits like TripAdvisor or BookingBuddy, followed by a long string of vacation guides, hotel guides, island guides, beach gui…

  • Lessons for Losing

    Mary Louise PrattARTICLECR The New Centennial Review2016References: 1

    Research Article| March 01 2016 Lessons for Losing Mary Louise Pratt Mary Louise Pratt New York University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google CR: The New Centennial Review (2016) 16 (1): 245–252. https://doi.org/10.14321/crnewcentrevi.16.1.0245 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Mary Louise Pratt; Lessons for Losing. CR: The New Centennial Review 1 March 2016; …

  • Recreating first contact: Expeditions, anthropology and popular culture, edited by Joshua A. Bell, Alison K. Brown and Robert J. Gordon

    Mary Louise PrattARTICLEAnthropological Forum2015

    This volume collects and connects twelve case studies of expeditionary travel from the first half of the twentieth century. Its object of study is the expedition as a Western genre of knowledge-bui

  • Utopias linguísticas

    Open AccessMary Louise Pratt, André Marques Do Nascimento et al.ARTICLETrabalhos em Linguística Aplicada2013Cited by: 2References: 7

    Este artigo, publicado originalmente em uma coletânea em 1987, aborda criticamente a noção de "comunidade linguística" em diferentes abordagens dos estudos da linguagem, do Gerativismo à Análise do Discurso, passando pela Sociolinguística e pela Crítica Literária. Discutindo a distância entre a homogeneidade da comunidade linguística imaginada (no sentido de Anderson) e a realidade fraturada da experiência linguística nas sociedades modernas estr…

  • The body in the corpus

    Open AccessMary Louise PrattARTICLEDiscourse Studies2011

    Allan Bell calls on hermeneutics to enliven the relation between discourse analysts and the materials they study, exploring the image of the analyst ‘standing before’ a corpus, prepared to be transformed by it. The ingredient of desire must be added to the account, as well as the embodied scenario of interpretation. These elements are mobilized to situate Bell’s rereading of Babel and of empire

  • Indigeneidades contemporáneas: Cultura, Política Y Globalización

    Amita Baviskar, Michelle Bigenho et al.BOOKIndigenous Experience Today2010

    Durante los últimos siglos, muchas sociedades tribales han sido aniquiladas por la guerra, la enfermedad, la explotación y la asimilación cultural. Sin embargo, lejos de desaparecer, como alguna vez se vaticinó, los pueblos nativos hoy se muestran fortalecidos e incluso crecen en términos demográficos. Así, los pueblos indígenas han afirmado su lugar en la cultura, la economía y la política mundial del siglo XXI, a pesar de lo heterogéneo de sus …

  • Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation

    Mary Louise PrattBOOKImperial Eyes2007

    Updated and expanded throughout with new illustrations and new material, this is the long- awaited second edition of a highly acclaimed and interdisciplinary book which quickly established itself as a seminal text in its field

  • Globalización, desmodernización y el retorno de los monstruos

    Open AccessMary Louise PrattARTICLERevista de História2007Cited by: 1

    O principal objetivo deste ensaio é refletir sobre como o processo de globalização é interpretado e representado por distintos imaginários, tais como : públicos, oficiais, vernaculares e pelas zonas de exclusão

  • Afterword: A Fax, Two Moles, a Consul, and a Judge

    Open AccessMary Louise PrattCHAPTERCultural Agency in the Americas2006

  • Mi cigarro, mi Singer, y la revolución mexicana: La danza ciudadana de Nellie Campobello

    Open AccessMary Louise PrattARTICLECadernos Pagu2004

    La autora propone en estas páginas trazar el perfil de la revolución mexicana en las dos obras narrativas principales de Nellie Campobello, Cartucho de 1931 y Las manos de mamá de 1937, y vincular estas con su práctica dancística desarrollada durante los mismo años. El articulo subraya el experimentalismo de ambas, enfocando la búsqueda de una forma alternativa dehistoricidad para contar los eventos de la revolución y el desarrollo de una ópticaf…

  • Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation

    Mary Louise Pratt, Pratt M-L StaffBOOKImperial Eyes2003

  • No me interrumpas: Las Mujeres Y El Ensayo Latinoamericano

    Open AccessMary Louise PrattARTICLEDebate Feminista2000Cited by: 2

    No me interrumpas": las mujeres y el ensayo latinoamericano

  • Lucha-libros: Me llamo Rigoberta Menchú y sus críticos en el contexto norteamericano

    Open AccessMary Louise PrattARTICLEDebate Feminista1999

    Lucha-libros: Me llamo Rigoberta Menchú y sus críticos en el contexto norteamericano

  • Intellectuals and New Social Movements: Where to? What Next

    Open AccessMary Louise PrattARTICLEOrganization1997

  • Apocalypse in the Andes: Contact Zones and the Struggle for Interpretive Power

    Mary Louise PrattREPORT1996Cited by: 3

    Mary Louise Pratt (1948-), Canadian linguist from Stanford University, leading scholar in feminism, post-colonial theory and culture in Latin America