So Little Time: The Lit-Lover's Guide to VCE English

Ep. 9 - Things Fall Apart


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What does it mean to be colonised? Moreover, what does it mean for a whole way of life to disappear beneath the ideals of foreigners? This week, we try our best to answer these big questions as we talk China Achebe's Things Fall Apart. Yes -  the writer in whose company the prison walls fell down. This text is so beautiful and complex - it gave voice to Igbo culture in a time when Western literary canon wrote off all colonised people as obscure and uncivilised and for this, we are eternally grateful. It was our honour to analyse such an exceptional text and we hope you love it too. 

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So Little Time: The Lit-Lover's Guide to VCE EnglishBy Ella Thonemann & Hannah Price