David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest Turns 25 | Children’s Literature and Political Correctness

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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. 

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

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/EL/2420-823X/2021/08 | Pubblicato 16 Marzo 2022 | Lingua it, en

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