Post-colonial literature

that's really cool to hear. I think the closest I got to reading anything like that in high school was Achebe's essay on Heart of Darkness, which we only read in conjunction with HOD.

i felt weird teaching season of migration to the north without teaching heart of darkness, but i can't quite wrap my head around teaching heart of darkness tbh. i was taught it in high school, and it blew my mind, but...it's tough.

everybody should read season of migration to the north btw so i have someone to discuss it with who is not a high school student (love my students, but it would also be nice to discuss it with adults!)

never heard of it until you posted -- noted!

i will read it, sounds great! but it may be in a year. i just started going from the top corner of my bookshelf and HOD is close by. i read it a while ago already. then i read king leopold's ghost this year which made me want to read it again.

King leopold’s ghost is such a great book! One of the best history books I’ve ever read? I am too frivolous to make it through most history books.

harbl, I hope you enjoy season of migration whenever you get to it!

it's been 15 years but yes King Leopold's Ghost is really amazing

i have never read a non-fiction book faster!

i felt weird teaching season of migration to the north without teaching heart of darkness, but i can't quite wrap my head around teaching heart of darkness tbh. i was taught it in high school, and it blew my mind, but...it's tough.

― horseshoe, Thursday, 18 February 2021 bookmarkflaglink

Reason season but not Heart of Darkness. Should correct.

There are a few things I think of post-colonial that I want to read:

Driss Chraïbi - The Distant Past

(A few others I have that I want to make more of a list)

It does seem, from the global south, that only Latin American Literature gets to be anything other than post-colonial. And that's possibly because a lot of it's writers are from European ancestry.

*Read 'Season...' that should say, above

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.