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