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David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest Turns 25 | Children’s Literature and Political Correctness

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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.

Keywords

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

permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/EL/2420-823X/2021/08

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