Another in our Appearances track, Carlyburg lays out how the loudmouths and Type-A personalities dominate the American context, and how the little people survive amidst the big town hustle. It's a deep-dish serving of dogged determination that gets us through. |
Sixtoze spared us the cocktails for something a bit deeper: the use of booze as metaphor and Romanticism as coping mechanism in the bleary years after all the parties ended and world turned inexorably toward war. |
You've heard the rumors, but Chuchu's use of action movie tropes to out just how fluid our notions of gender have become had us exploding with joy: the flames of shoot-'em-up blockbusters hide but suggest a flamboyant side to every adolescent fantasy. |
Steeped in the stultifying language of officialdom, Boggs' presentation seemed to leak a latent and unhandleable truth: it's less about ideology and more about line-toeing for the Republican base. Yet they all believe they're warriors beneath the tasseled loafers and the brass-buttoned blue blazers. |
The Drinking track was busy this year, showing a convergence of lit-crit and liquor that, frankly, we always knew was all but inevitable. Barbancourt's addition brought the high-seas story into high relief: millions faced shackles so these stories could be told, so the leisured classes could remain as drunk as lords, and so poets could project their minds across the waves and into new worlds. |
Remember sign painters? Yeah, no one does. But with verbs emblazoned on home walls (“LIVE! LAUGH!”) in fancy lettering, we've all witnessed yet another art form stolen from individual, often female, artisans (the “Janes”) and exploited by industrial outfits so “the Quinns” of the world will spend their money at Hobby Lobby. (Only people who don't have time for their family use block lettering on their walls. You love your family, right? RIGHT?) |
Von Chartraux proved his point a little too well by tricking us all into signing non-disclosure agreements, but I've said too much already. |
Shy-Town: Introversion, Extra-versions, and Rahm Emanuelization, or On Laying Low in the City of Big Shoulders 
TS Fitzgerald: Modernism, Lost Generations, and Drinking Through the Jazz Age, a PostMordor in a Wasted Land 
Trans Mission Impossible: Tom Cruise, Ted Cruz, Tim Curry, and the Making of Post-Modern Gender Identities 
Boehner Fide-lis: Loyaly, Authenticity, and the Marine Corpus of the GOP, a Congressional Briefing Paper
The Rime of the Ancient Grand Marnier: Albatrosses, Alcohol, and Altered States, or the Literary Legacy of the Triangular Trade, a South Seas Story in Seven Slavers
[Sic] Sad World: Typo(s)graphy, Social Media, and Feminine Expression in a Post-Daria Generation 
The New Reading Comprehension: EULAs, Reality TV and Other Faustian Agreements Conclusion
As is always right for conference follow-up, we declare the PostModern Village Conference 2017 a rousing success!
Conference materials, at least the electronic ones, will be available for conference goers online soon, and voting for next year's venue, academic tracks, and theme will be part of the inevitable Survey Monkey to follow.
