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David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest Turns 25 | Children’s Literature and Political Correctness

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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.

Keywords

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

permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/EL/2420-823X/2021/08

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