Correspondence and Postcard in the Great War. The Role of Women in a Postcard Collection
from Covasna County Cover Image

Az írás és a képeslap szerepe a Nagy Háborúban. Nők egy háromszéki képeslaphagyaték tükrében
Correspondence and Postcard in the Great War. The Role of Women in a Postcard Collection from Covasna County

Author(s): Dénes Lőrinczi
Subject(s): Media studies, Photography, Theory of Communication
Published by: Medea Egyesület
Keywords: picture postcard; World War I; propaganda; female roles; correspondence;

Summary/Abstract: The golden age of the postcard began in the second half of the 19th century. After the outbreak of Word War I the postcard’ssurface was heavily used by war propaganda. During the war Demeter Annuska, who was born in Kökös in 1901, received anumber of postcards which in depicting pristine female fi gures as objects of desire in correlation with general homesickness andlonging tell the story of another kind of – but mainly the same – propaganda.

  • Issue Year: XIV/2019
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 45-54
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Hungarian
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