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

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

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