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

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/EL/2420-823X/2021/08 | Published March 16, 2022 | Language it, en

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