David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest Turns 25 | Children’s Literature and Political Correctness

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Abstract

Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace’s most famous book, published on February 1, 1996, turned 25 in 2021. In its first section, this special issue celebrates the novel’s silver anniversary with six fresh re-readings by prominent Wallace readers. The second section deals with the theme ‘transgression vs the politically correct’ in children’s literature. 

Keywords Communication • Censorship • Franz Kafka • Peter Pan • Children’s sexualisation • French youth literature • Alienation • Charles Dickens • Cognition • Political correctness • Alice in Wonderland • Gender • Tennis • Malika Ferdjoukh • Descartes • Dualism • Motherhood • Female education • Hard Times • Linguistic criticism • Sexual violence • Fascism • Barbie doll • David Foster Wallace • Voice • Gender stereotypes • Narrator • Politically correct • Stylistics • Humanism • Immoralism and amoralism • Madame Psychosis • Through the Looking Glass • Discourse studies • Acknowledgment • Offence • Role of literature • Post-irony • Infinite Jest • Art • Poetic language • Joelle van Dyne • Self-becoming • Lesbianism • <em>Infinite Jest</em> • Metamodernism • Pinocchio • The Metamorphosis • Cultural memory • Children’s literature • Empowerment • Shoah • Identity • Lewis Carroll

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/EL/2420-823X/2021/08 | Published March 16, 2022 | Language en, it

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