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