The Other and Authorship

The idea of Marxists doing away with personal involvement in authorship should itself fall under scrutiny, if not thrown straight away into the garbage bin. Who are they to say the individual does not count?

This leads to a deeper question: Who has the right to determine authorship? There is indeed a personal presence in that whoever is the author determines what truth shall be. From Cook, it is possible with a limited budget to oppose the established film industry and argue for the importance of women. Bhabha writes of the authorship of the British Empire through an English Bible. The imperial authorship determined through force, truth for the Indian subjects, and that imposed truth is not easy to unshackle, even decades after the end of colonial rule, and JanMohamed writes of similar imposition of authorship in Africa, with the addition of the enslavement. Micheaux showed that it is indeed possible for people of color, at least in the United States, to challenge the authorship of the larger media and present to the world another truth about themselves.
From Projansky and Ono I see those in power have determined that the author is dead, but for Asian identity—and there are many—to be alive in film, the Asian authors have resurrected the auteur. It would seem such resurrections still happen.