Post-colonial literature

As an American, my favorite post-colonial alternative storyline is that if only we'd failed at Revolution, there would have been no Civil War.

"On weekend mornings, between 6 a.m. and whenever the kids woke up, she wrote, and then typed up her ideas at the kitchen table, ‘with the noise of children coming in and out and banging the doors’. She sent her stories out on a Tuesday and received her rejections by Friday for years, until Richard Crossman, who had become editor of the New Statesman in 1970 after six years in Harold Wilson’s cabinet, liked one of them enough to buy several in 1972"

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n05/joanna-biggs/lady-this-and-princess-that

That quote rather underplays her struggle! Good piece, definitely will check out her writing.

Reading Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's Devil on the Cross and the book was made for this thread.