With access to the internet, it’s easy to imagine that a world of stories is at our fingertips.
In fact, our access to authentic and diverse cultural narratives is blocked by colonial monopolies that have fettered the free movement of world narratives for hundreds of years.
Readers trying to wade their way through new story platforms like Wattpad, or purchase books through the US/UK dominated Amazon and Book Depository may not be aware of the economic forces that dam the flow of stories between cultures.
Writers who sign a book contract granting world rights to their publishers are often bewildered and demoralised to find their book unavailable except in their local bookstore.
There’s a world of stories that you don’t know exists.
This will be an in-depth discussion about territorial rights, the New York / London axis of power, the colonisation of world imagination, and the truth about publishing and post-colonialism.
