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Anderson, Jean
Journal of New Zealand literature, 07/2018, Letnik: 36, Številka: 2Journal Article
In one of his best-known poems, 'The Maori Jesus', James K. Baxter recounts the misadventures of the eponymous Christ figure in and around Wellington city. Although he walks on water and is clearly possessed of supernatural powers such as the ability to make the sun shine or the ground shake, he is also very much a social outsider and a victim of the forces of order. His twelve disciples are equally marginalised, drawn from the fringes of society and / or specifically represented as likely to be in conflict with organised religion: among them is a cleaner of toilets, joined by an unsuccessful call-girl 'who turned it up for nothing', a 'sad old quean', an alcoholic priest ‘going slowly mad’ and a housewife 'who had forgotten the Pill'.
