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