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