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

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/EL/2420-823X/2021/08 | Published March 16, 2022 | Language en, it

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