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