Literatura apocalíptica y literatura fantástica

Abstract

This article seeks to examine the socio-religious dimension of fantastic literature, particularly Hebrew apocalyptic literature in comparison to contemporary fantastic literature. The social function of fantastic literature is to creatively confront imposed laws in order to propose a different way of interpreting reality. Fantastic stories are literary works that make use of diverse cultural symbols to resist the domination of the small. Apocalyptic literature functions as fantastic literature for late Judaism and early Christianity. It consists of the creation of dreams and monsters, the human struggle against beastly impositions drunk with power. It denounces injustice and announces the kingdom of life. It incites resistance through different means, and is never limited to established laws, rules, taboos and empires.
It is a subversive literature, no only politically, but also culturally and spiritually, and it invites our Latin American reflection to develop a literary and theological recuperation of our ancestral roots to resist the monstrous domination that seeks to eradicate our traditions through imposed religion and the gods of the market.