David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest Turns 25 | Children’s Literature and Political Correctness
Language: it, en
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.
<em>Infinite Jest</em> • Alienation • Franz Kafka • Alice in Wonderland • Art • Children’s literature • Empowerment • Voice • Discourse studies • Descartes • Humanism • Stylistics • Self-becoming • Censorship • Gender • Pinocchio • Poetic language • Politically correct • Children’s sexualisation • Cognition • Shoah • Narrator • Lesbianism • Linguistic criticism • Female education • Acknowledgment • Cultural memory • Dualism • Gender stereotypes • Joelle van Dyne • The Metamorphosis • French youth literature • Fascism • Sexual violence • Communication • Infinite Jest • David Foster Wallace • Lewis Carroll • Post-irony • Charles Dickens • Hard Times • Barbie doll • Madame Psychosis • Identity • Malika Ferdjoukh • Motherhood • Metamodernism • Tennis • Peter Pan • Immoralism and amoralism • Offence • Role of literature • Political correctness • Through the Looking Glass