David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest Turns 25 | Children’s Literature and Political Correctness
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Pubblicato: 16 Marzo 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.
Political correctness • Dualism • Acknowledgment • The Metamorphosis • Through the Looking Glass • Cognition • Cultural memory • Sexual violence • Lesbianism • Children’s literature • Tennis • Politically correct • Communication • Voice • Identity • Madame Psychosis • David Foster Wallace • Discourse studies • Metamodernism • Lewis Carroll • Motherhood • Infinite Jest • <em>Infinite Jest</em> • Children’s sexualisation • Empowerment • Immoralism and amoralism • Gender • Malika Ferdjoukh • Post-irony • Fascism • Alice in Wonderland • French youth literature • Gender stereotypes • Poetic language • Shoah • Role of literature • Offence • Art • Alienation • Humanism • Barbie doll • Linguistic criticism • Joelle van Dyne • Censorship • Charles Dickens • Descartes • Pinocchio • Narrator • Peter Pan • Self-becoming • Female education • Hard Times • Stylistics • Franz Kafka