David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest Turns 25 | Children’s Literature and Political Correctness
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Pubblicato: 16 Marzo 2022
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.
Hard Times • Self-becoming • Children’s literature • French youth literature • Communication • Infinite Jest • Metamodernism • Empowerment • Fascism • Lesbianism • Lewis Carroll • Pinocchio • Shoah • Peter Pan • Political correctness • Art • Charles Dickens • Sexual violence • Through the Looking Glass • Gender • Narrator • Tennis • Role of literature • Cognition • Voice • Discourse studies • Politically correct • Alienation • Children’s sexualisation • Barbie doll • Joelle van Dyne • Humanism • Malika Ferdjoukh • Acknowledgment • Linguistic criticism • Offence • Poetic language • Identity • Dualism • Franz Kafka • Gender stereotypes • David Foster Wallace • Female education • Madame Psychosis • <em>Infinite Jest</em> • Cultural memory • Post-irony • The Metamorphosis • Descartes • Immoralism and amoralism • Alice in Wonderland • Censorship • Stylistics • Motherhood