Two Non-Mimetic Modalities of Religious Influence in the Latin American Tradition

Abstract

As part of the spectrum of non-mimetic literature, we find a diversity of texts influenced by the presence of divinity, different religious traditions or sacred books. In order to distinguish them from the fantastic, terms such as the miraculous and the Christian marvelous have been used; however, I consider it necessary to specify and extend this terminology so that it would be functional for all narratives in which the divine intervenes, starting from the paradigm of intratextual reality and regardless of the belief system in which they are anchored. This paper proposes a nomenclature that distinguishes the miraculous from the marvelous and the fantastic when the supernatural event involves the mediation of a divinity or a being proceeding from any religious tradition: the marvelous divine and the fantastic divine.