1920s – Berita, Riset, dan Analisis – The Conversation

Tony Ka Fai Leung and Jane March in the 1992 film of The Lover. IMDB

Maret 26, 2023

Marguerite Duras called The Lover ‘a load of shit’, but her novel about her affair as a 15-year-old stuns with its emotional force

Anthony Macris, University of Technology Sydney

Margeurite Duras’s fictionalised account of a teenage affair with a much older Chinese man has been criticised as a kind of retro-Orientalist Lolita. But that does her iconic novel an injustice.

In the wake of COVID-19, the 2020s may be a time when we reconsider how we work, run governments and have fun, just as the 1920s were. This illustration of a flapper girl, created by artist Russell Patterson in the 1920s, captures the style of that era. (Library of Congress)

April 29, 2021

Will the end of the COVID-19 pandemic usher in a second Roaring ’20s?

Agnes Arnold-Forster, McGill University

A century ago, the end of the 1918 flu pandemic was followed by a period of prosperity, cultural flourishing and social change known as the Roaring ‘20s. Will the end of COVID-19 launch a similar era?

In happier times: Stanley Baldwin (r) in August 1923, months before the December election. PA Archive

Desember 10, 2019

The last time the UK had a December election – in 1923 – it resulted in a hung parliament

Philip Williamson, Durham University

When Stanley Baldwin called an election in December 1923, the outcome was unintended, unexpected and enduring.

The freedom to choose one’s clothes is key to sartorial experimentation. In the late 1920s, the Catholic Register wrote that these swimsuits were indecent. State Library of Queensland

Desember 12, 2018

Québec’s fashion police: A century of telling women what not to wear

Donica Belisle, University of Regina

Powerful forces in Québec have long kept tabs on women’s dress codes, and therefore women’s bodies.

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