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

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/EL/2420-823X/2021/08 | Pubblicato 16 Marzo 2022 | Lingua it, en

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