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

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

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