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

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

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