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

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

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