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

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

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