The Ethics of Touch in Women Travellers＇ First Encounters With Foreign Ethnicities

This paper compares 18th and 19th century travelogues written by women and men travelling the cultural contact zones of the empire, as well as fictional recreations of such first encounters. A juxtaposition of the writers＇ reaction to the dynamics of gazing and the ethics of touch yields surprising results. Many women travellers have no problem to acknowledge the reciprocity of the gaze, accepting, as a matter of course, that the objects of their ethnological interest will gaze at them in return. In comparison, male travellers often exhibit unease at becoming an object of appraisal and observation. Even more interestingly, male travellers often shy away from haptic contact with members of the indigenous population, whereas many （though not all） women are more tolerant of touch and proximity. Regarded as ＂unwomanly＂ by their contemporaries, they carved out for themselves roles which allowed for a more intimate interaction with foreign ethnicities; also, they wrote in different genres--private memoirs instead of official reports. But even in their （semi） fictional writings male authors seem to imagine inter-cultural encounters in different terms from women and tend not let their protagonists enter into close bodily contact with the indigenous population.

Research on Red Culture Merging into Ideological Work in Colleges and Universities Under the Background of Integration of Culture and Tourism-Taking Red Culture Resources in Wuhan as an Example

The aim is how to integrate the Red Music Culture into the ideological and political work of colleges and universities and the sustainable development under the background of the integration of culture and tourism.The main content is the development of local red cultural resources,red cultural education around me,the development of local red cultural resources as the theme of cultural and creative products.The enlightenment is that the ideological and political work of colleges and universities should make full use of the red cultural resources around them to bring the ideological and political education of students into effect.

Paul Groussac’s Void:The French Writer and the Argentine Tradition

The French-Argentine Paul Groussac embodied a wide range of writerly functions and cultural-political positions within the Argentine cultural field between the 1880s and the 1920s:writer,playwright,chronicler,traveler,literary,art,and music critic,historian,educator,editor,and director of the National Library during 44 years.This essay considers his place in the history of Argentine literature looking at two of the many ways in which he inscribed himself in it The first takes up the production and reproduction of the ontological privilege of French identity as a form of legitimization for his public-and often polemic-interventions,through which he sought to establish scholarly-disciplinary practices,protocols,and conventions that would articulate an entire critical field around his own authority.The second proposes to think his alternatively weak and strong inscriptions in the literary tradition through his own narrative production:his fiction and dramaturgy,travelogues,and biographical sketches.In other words,this essay situates Groussac in an Argentine literary tradition(conceived as an organic and institutionally sanctioned textual corpus)he believed to have founded and established,a selfrepresentation that led Borges to say that Groussac saw himself as“a missionary of Voltaire among the mulattage.”