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Radioapocrypha - Couverture souple

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Fischer, BK

 
9780814254646: Radioapocrypha
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0814254640 ISBN 13 : 9780814254646
Editeur : Ohio State University Press, 2018

Synopsis

A novella in verse, Radioapocrypha envisions what would have happened if Jesus Christ had arrived for the first time not in Palestine two thousand years ago but in a subdivision in Maryland in 1989, the year Depeche Mode released “Personal Jesus.” In this suburban retelling of the gospel, Jesus is a hunky post-punk high school chemistry teacher and the disciples are a twelve-member garage band. The story unfolds as recorded testimony and overheard teachings, a series of alternating lyric poems, prose poems, and parables that engage the social, sexual, and racial tensions of an era. Told from the point of view of the Magdalen character, named Maren—and drawing from the Gnostic text known as the Gospel of Mary as well as other scriptural sources—these poems sample widely from popular music and 1980s culture to recast and revivify a gritty, surreal, crackpot story of loners, losers, and lovers.

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Éditeur
Ohio State University Press
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0814254640
ISBN 13 
9780814254646
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
88
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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