Response to Ashali's Question

3. Could one argue that most texts now all over the world have a definite author as a result of the Western world's influence?

Major authors are celebrities. Stephen King, JK Rowling, Michael Crichton, John Grisham...their books get translated into so many languages and displayed at the forefront of bookstores around the world that the influence of "singular author as God" is all over.

Here's some trivia to illustrate the point:

I remember reading in either Time or Newsweek the following graph: what author has had his/her work translated into the most languages?

If you said Shakespeare, you're wrong. Not JK Rowling (she's not top 50) and not Stephen King.

It's Agatha Christie, with some 6,000 languages (if I remember correctly). Twice as many as Shakespeare.

In either case, the vast majority of the writers are Western writers with household names. The people behind these texts become godlike, and in our monotheistic Western culture, it's no wonder that they are worshipped. Extending their names across the world cannot help but iterpellate non-Western cultures into the same one-author, one-God, one-text consciousness.