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

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

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