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