Modalities of Fantasy: Reconfiguring Time and Space (Editors’ Note)
Deeksha Suri | Khalsa College University of Delhi | ORCiD ID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-2977-9543
Md. Faizan Moquim | Jamia Milia Islamia | ORCiD ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7698-1656
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.71106/ZPRD1068
Publication: Volume 4 Issue 3
Excerpt | Our current pandemic-hit reality interrogates all that we had taken for granted in terms of our reliability over the physical world and our response to it. The novelty and rapidity of the spread of the virus portends a complete disintegration of our supposed knowledge of the self and the sense of the world we inhabit, while it fundamentally gains over our vulnerabilities with relation to the environment. The state of affairs, far from being intelligible, allows us to rethink the relevance of literary spaces that are able to provide a reflective stance on the dimensions of social constructivism. In these trying circumstances, we invite all our readers to understand structured and unstructured formations of meaning within the contexts of aporia, apocalypse, and dystopia which have been the themes dealt with throughout the fourth Volume of LLIDS. Following this thought, our third Issue of this fourth Volume deals with othered narratives—the unseen, unspoken, and repressed aspects of our world—within the mode of Fantasy writings. While some believe in seeing things as they are, certain other voices of scepticism respond to the reality through visions of the fantastic that are gateways to renewed perceptions of the possible and the impossible. Operating on the cusp of the impossible, the unusual, and the strange, these fantastical narratives reimagine a way towards reconfiguring meaning when all existing attempts to theorize the sense of the world are blasted beyond comprehension.
Keywords | Fantasy, Othered Narratives, Social Constructivism, Meaning-Making, Epistemological Doubt, Transrealism, Alternate Worlds
Deeksha Suri (deeksha.suri80@gmail.com)
Faizan Moquim (faizanmoquim@gmail.com)
MLA Citation for this Article:
Suri, Deeksha and Md. Faizan Moquim. “Modalities of Fantasy: Reconfiguring Time and Space (Editors’ Note).” Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies, vol. 4, no. 3, 31 Jul. 2021, pp. vii-ix, https://doi.org/10.71106/ZPRD1068.