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

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

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