Why does Infinite Jest purport to be both, in David's words,

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2017-01-01 01:55:33 Post No. 8910479
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Anonymous 2017-01-01 01:55:33 Post No. 8910479 [Report]

Why does Infinite Jest purport to be both, in David's words, a portrait "for and about" the young white male mental landscape, and also a universal and "all-encompassing" portrait and indictment of mental illness and addiction in the US?

Does David see the white male experience as the universal one? Or does he feel that he has such an intellectual grasp on the matter at hand that it gives him the leverage to whitesplain all minority experiences?

Anonymous 2017-01-01 01:57:06 Post No.8910484
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Anonymous 2017-01-01 01:57:06 Post No.8910484 [Report]

please eliminate whitesplain from your vocabulary

Anonymous 2017-01-01 02:03:30 Post No.8910503
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Anonymous 2017-01-01 02:03:30 Post No.8910503 [Report]

>>8910484
He's reading David Meme Wallace, he may as well use meme vocabulary

Anonymous 2017-01-01 02:06:29 Post No.8910513
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>>8910503
>david foster wallace is a meme
i love this meme

Anonymous 2017-01-01 02:09:50 Post No.8910520
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>>8910513
The best memes are always true

Anonymous 2017-01-01 02:19:43 Post No.8910547
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>>8910484
>white boys trying to dictate minority populaces through linguistic control
Wowwww.. huh. You wanna be just like your idol, right?

>>8910503
What?

Anonymous 2017-01-01 02:20:29 Post No.8910552
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>>8910547
why are you reading white writers if you get mad?

Anonymous 2017-01-01 02:24:05 Post No.8910566
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Anonymous 2017-01-01 02:24:05 Post No.8910566 [Report]

no YA discussion please, this is a literature board

Anonymous 2017-01-01 02:29:52 Post No.8910590
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>>8910547
troll

Anonymous 2017-01-01 05:50:18 Post No.8911174
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>>8910479
the only thing exclusively white about the book is that he was smart enough to know which audience would even possibly read it. It really wasn't about color though, it was mostly gender and class. He wrote from a very honest perspective: his own (a white WASP) It just so happens that he was mentally ill and jumped headfirst into anything he wanted to do, which does make it sorta universal by definition but (some things such as the humor would probably fall flat on certain audiences).

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