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

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Language: en, it

Published: March 16, 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.

Keywords

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

permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/EL/2420-823X/2021/08

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