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

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

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