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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.

Keywords

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

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

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