David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest Turns 25 | Children’s Literature and Political Correctness
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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.
Children’s literature • Madame Psychosis • Alienation • Pinocchio • Role of literature • Linguistic criticism • Cultural memory • Infinite Jest • Poetic language • Empowerment • Female education • David Foster Wallace • Voice • Children’s sexualisation • Franz Kafka • Post-irony • Communication • The Metamorphosis • Alice in Wonderland • Tennis • Fascism • Charles Dickens • Gender stereotypes • Sexual violence • Joelle van Dyne • Discourse studies • Shoah • Dualism • Identity • Political correctness • Malika Ferdjoukh • Motherhood • Lewis Carroll • Narrator • Metamodernism • Through the Looking Glass • Art • Politically correct • Self-becoming • Humanism • Stylistics • Immoralism and amoralism • Barbie doll • Offence • Acknowledgment • Hard Times • Gender • Cognition • French youth literature • Censorship • <em>Infinite Jest</em> • Lesbianism • Peter Pan • Descartes