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1 online resource |
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Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Preface -- Biographical Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- The Forces of Crime and Punishment: Stranger in His Homeland, The Crown of Thorns, A Legend of the Dead -- STRANGER IN HIS HOMELAND -- THE CROWN OF THORNS -- A LEGEND OF THE DEAD -- Chapter 2 -- Desperation and The Will to Survive: The Akroma File, and The Crabs of Bangui -- THE AKROMA FILE -- THE CRABS OF BANGUI -- Chapter 3 -- A Journey into the Soul, the Mind, and the Person: No Way to Die, and Salvation Colony -- NO WAY TO DIE -- SALVATION COLONY |
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Chapter 4 -- Culture and Conflict: Chopchair, Dr. Frederick Ngenito -- CHOPCHAIR -- DOCTOR FREDERICK NGENITO -- Chapter 5 -- Dichotomizing History: Osagyefo: The Great Betrayal -- OSAGYEFO: THE GREAT BETRAYAL -- Chapter 6 -- Linus T. Asong and Beyond: A Portrait and Conclusion -- NOTES -- APPENDIX -- Works Cited -- INDEX -- Back cover |
| Summary |
This study is the first critical examination of the novels of Linus T. Asong, a sharp, compelling, and brutally insightful storyteller, sometimes comical yet with a knack for the distraught, disturbing, and macabre in his throbbing capture and portrayal of society as it functions or as it fails to function. Asong's novels bring to the fore an unexpected enormous array of characters whose physical appearances and habits are depictions made concrete by potent imagistic words deployed not only to evoke vividness and plausibility, but more specifically to peek into the soul and mental uprightness of persons and society. Hence, they demonstrate the response of the oppressed, exploited, and abused in the face of dysfunctionality, social, and cultural violations and deviations. In this light, the novels are revealed to serve both as testimonies and critiques of the times in which Asong lived. This study, therefore, offers insights into one of the most prolific novelists of Southern Cameroons origins, as well as modern trends in African literature |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 28, 2024) |
| Subject |
Asong, Linus T. (Linus Tongwo), 1947-2012 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Literature & literary studies.
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LITERARY CRITICISM / African.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9956553786 |
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9789956553785 |
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