CHAPTER ONE
We are literary natives because we recognise literature's ability to help us make sense of our lives in a postcolonial capitalist world and its ability to help us envision a new world altogether. For people like us, books have always provided us with a place of belonging. To be a literary native is to inhabit a world that is not defined by physical borders, nationhood or citizenship, but rather by a genuine love of literature and writing. If you can remember the first time a story has made you feel like you belonged, then you are one of us.
Welcome.
DEDICATED TO BLACK WRITERS
INDEGIONOUS WRITERS
&
WRITERS OF COLOUR WORLDWIDE
FOR US BY US
