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