Frontmatter and Editorial

Abstract

In lieu of an abstract, here is the first paragraph of the editorial:

In her seminal Fantasy: A Literature of Subversion, critic Rosemary Jackson calls fantasy “a literature of desire” (3), one that “traces the unsaid and unseen of culture, that which has been silenced, made invisible, covered over and made ‘absent’” (4). This argument, made in 1981, still holds true today. Fantasy literature abounds with creatures signifying desire, landscapes offering room for its exploration, and narrative techniques that facilitate what Tolkien calls “secondary belief” (49) into these worlds and the characters roaming them.