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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.

Keywords

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

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

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