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