Muting White Noise - Cox, James
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Native American fiction writers have confronted Euro-American narratives about Indians and the colonial world those narratives help create. These Native authors offer stories in which Indians remake this colonial world by resisting conquest and assimilation, sustaining their cultures and communities, and surviving. In Muting White Noise, James H. Cox considers how Native authors have liberated our imaginations from colonial narratives. Cox takes his title from Sherman Alexie, for whom the white noise of a television set represents the white mass-produced culture that mutes American Indian…mehr

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Native American fiction writers have confronted Euro-American narratives about Indians and the colonial world those narratives help create. These Native authors offer stories in which Indians remake this colonial world by resisting conquest and assimilation, sustaining their cultures and communities, and surviving. In Muting White Noise, James H. Cox considers how Native authors have liberated our imaginations from colonial narratives. Cox takes his title from Sherman Alexie, for whom the white noise of a television set represents the white mass-produced culture that mutes American Indian voices. Cox foregrounds the work of Native intellectuals in his readings of the American Indian novel tradition. He thereby develops a critical perspective from which to re-see the role played by the Euro-American novel tradition in justifying and enabling colonialism. By examining novels by Native authors-especially Thomas King, Gerald Vizenor, and Alexie-Cox shows how these writers challenge and revise colonizers' tales about Indians. He then offers "red readings" of some revered Euro-American novels, including Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, and shows that until quite recently, even those non-Native storytellers who sympathized with Indians could imagine only their vanishing by story's end. Muting White Noise breaks new ground in literary criticism. It stands with Native authors in their struggle to reclaim their own narrative space and tell stories that empower and nurture, rather than undermine and erase, American Indians and their communities.
Autorenporträt
James Cox is an acclaimed author, playwright and actor. His solo show, Love, Madness, and Somewhere in Between was praised by critics and audiences alike at the 2019 Hollywood Fringe Festival while his debut novel, Silver or Lead, a psychological thriller, published in April 2022 is receiving rave reviews. Roppongi is his second novel will be published by Black Rose Writing in early 2023.James witnessed a terrorist attack in Tokyo, Japan while serving in the U.S.Navy and brings real authenticity to this novel of love and redemption set against a background of global terrorism in 1990s Japan. James currently resides in Phuket, Thailand where he is researching his next novel.