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