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