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