GOD'S WIFE & THE SYNONYMOUS X

Jesse Chase • Literary Fiction / Experimental Fiction / Psychological Fiction / Critical Theory

Book Description

A story of capitalism, schizophrenia, and anti-oedipal Babylon. Follow Cal as he goes through the gravity of an eclipse and psychotic episode while walking around present-day Montreal, Turtle Island. Finding all of history and culture appropriated by imperialist and racist perspectives inimical to his own self, the protagonist must construct his own program of decolonization and dismantle the philosophic mindspace of the inhuman ideologies and oppressive technologies he has inherited.

GOD'S WIFE & THE SYNONYMOUS X is a story about the self-recovery of personal narrative from the historical nightmare and violence of those who are aware of the trauma and chaos of experience. In a world that won't let people be magic, it is a story about historical preparation and divination for world building. A brave, fresh work that champions an ethics of self-recovery and rehabilitation of personal narrative in a world of masks, capitalism, and oppression.

This is the first in a series of three books in different genres: (1) a novel; (2) a book of critical, cultural, and literary theory as an assassination attempt on philosophy and the hegemonies of cultural appropriation; and (3) a treatment of the process of making the first two books.

Author Bio

JESSE CHASE was born in Montreal, Quebec, on April 8, 1985. His family moved to Cornwall, Ontario when he was 5 and he remained there until the age of 18. Upon returning to Montreal he sought to become a multidisciplinary artist. He has published poetry, interviews, critical theory, and reviews in Poetry is Dead, Arc, Hypermedia Joyce Studies, The Brotherwise Dispatch, The Word Addict, and Ditch Poetry magazines. His concrete poetics have been featured in the Future Concrete Exhibit in Vancouver and the Prague Babalon Micro Literary Festival. He also plays trumpet, sings, raps, and performs around Montreal regularly.

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Debut novel (first in a planned trilogy).

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