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