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