The Novels Of Linus T Asong
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The Novels Of Linus T Asong
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Author : Emmanuel Fru Doh
language : en
Publisher: Langaa RPCID
Release Date : 2023-07-14
The Novels Of Linus T Asong written by Emmanuel Fru Doh and has been published by Langaa RPCID this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-14 with categories.
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. EMMANUEL FRU DOH holds a Ph.D from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. Poet, novelist, social, and literary critic, Emmanuel Fru Doh is the author of Anglophone Cameroon Literature: An Introduction. He teaches in the Department of English at Century College, Minnesota, USA.
The Novels Of Linus T Asong
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Author : Emmanuel Doh
language : en
Publisher: African Books Collective
Release Date : 2023-09-30
The Novels Of Linus T Asong written by Emmanuel Doh and has been published by African Books Collective this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
The Crown Of Thorns
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Author : Linus Tongwo Asong
language : en
Publisher: African Books Collective
Release Date : 2009
The Crown Of Thorns written by Linus Tongwo Asong and has been published by African Books Collective this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Fiction categories.
"Asong's sense of the human predicament is astounding...It is above all, the story of guilt in a world ridden with self-interest."- Professor Rudy Wiebe, University of Alberta --
No Way To Die
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Author : Linus Tongwo Asong
language : en
Publisher: African Books Collective
Release Date : 2009
No Way To Die written by Linus Tongwo Asong and has been published by African Books Collective this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Fiction categories.
What happens when a young man of talent and visions of greatness falls victim to a cruel set of circumstances over which he has no control? No Way to Die is such a story. Dennis Nunqam Ndendemajem gives up! Even when he is given a second chance to start again, he refuses to gather the broken pieces of his life together. He refuses to rebuild, and refuses to live. But he also finds no way to die.
Chopchair
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Author : Linus Tongwo Asong
language : en
Publisher: African Books Collective
Release Date : 2010
Chopchair written by Linus Tongwo Asong and has been published by African Books Collective this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Fiction categories.
The extremely irritable and quick-tempered chieftain, Akendong II has 14 children, all girls, and is saddened by the fact that he has no chopchair, a male heir to his throne. Then news comes to him that his favourite wife has given birth to a pair of twins, boys. He is even more angered by the fact that he has two heirs, a source of trouble for his kingdom. To avoid his wrath, his councillors change the story, sending away one of the boys to grow in hiding. Learning of the truth about his birth 15 years afterwards, the prince in hiding returns, kidnaps the palace prince and demands his full share of the kingdom. His will is done, but at a very great cost to the chief's peace of mind and relationship with his people. This is by far the shortest of Asong's novels and the least complicated by comparison. But the conflicts, the hallmarks of his art are still there, so also is his breathtaking suspense.
Laughing Store
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Author : Linus Tongwo Asong
language : en
Publisher: African Books Collective
Release Date : 2010
Laughing Store written by Linus Tongwo Asong and has been published by African Books Collective this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Humor categories.
Laughing Store is just what we need in times of troubles and uncertainties such as these. A book of humour from an acclaimed master of laughter, it lifts our hearts and raises our spirits. Jokes that touch about every domain of existence - from sex to religion, from births to deaths, from politics to the beer parlour, from the courtroom to the hospital. And most important of all, conceived in the supremely original Cameroonian flavour of jokes.
Stranger In His Homeland
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Author : Linus Tongwo Asong
language : en
Publisher: African Books Collective
Release Date : 2010
Stranger In His Homeland written by Linus Tongwo Asong and has been published by African Books Collective this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Stranger in His Homeland completes the long-awaited trilogy of Linus Asong's fictitious village of Nkokonoko Small Monje, separately treated in The Crown of Thorns and its sequel A Legend of the Dead. However, it leads us back not to events after A Legend of the Dead, but to the crisis that created the passionately exciting The Crown of Thorns. Honest, enthusiastic, arrogant and self-righteous, Antony Nkoaleck, the first graduate of his tribe means well. But his society, entrenched in corruption, sees things differently and therefore judges him according to its own norms. Just one or two errors on Antony's part are enough to cost him his job with the government, the coveted throne of Nkokonoko Small Monje, and finally his life. It is a sad story, strongly reminiscent of Myshkin's fate in Dostoevysky's novel The Idiot, a story in which the Russian novelist vividly shows the inability of any man to bear the burden of moral perfection in an imperfect world.
Psychological Constructs And The Craft Of African Fiction Of Yesteryears
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Author : Linus Tongwo Asong
language : en
Publisher: African Books Collective
Release Date : 2012
Psychological Constructs And The Craft Of African Fiction Of Yesteryears written by Linus Tongwo Asong and has been published by African Books Collective this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Literary Criticism categories.
The novel remains the most popular genre in the African literary landscape. In the very large body of criticism that has been devoted to the craft of African fiction, this very stimulating study of six African novels will hold its own distinctive place for a long while. It brings to African critical thought not only an exceptional acumen of interpretation and analysis, but something much more important to most of the previous serious literary study than mere technical dissection - a keen sense of the experience and imaginative truth that make Asong's selected African texts living books as well as authentic record of human and moral values. Many of Asong's perceptions are not only critically shrewd but humanly searching, alert to aesthetic quality and invention. No one interested in creative criticism of African fiction will read this book without finding its approach a challenge to his or her own reading of African fiction, and a stimulus to understanding the growth and enduring richness of the best of the African novel. The book balances nicely in its choice of three texts in English and three in French, the two dominant colonial languages in Africa South of the Sahara. Even more interesting is the fact that although all the French texts have been translated into English, Asong opts to treat the three in the original language in which they were conceived and executed, a decision which keeps the reader as close as possible to the original idiom.
Osagyefo
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Author : Linus Tongwo Asong
language : en
Publisher: African Books Collective
Release Date : 2010
Osagyefo written by Linus Tongwo Asong and has been published by African Books Collective this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Fiction categories.
The personality of the highly charismatic foremost African Nationalist, Kwame Nkrumah as featured once in a while in Ghanaian fiction. For example, the celebrated Ghanaian novelist, Ayi Kwei Armah draws attention to the corrupt nature of the Nkrumah regime in his famous novel, The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born. But this is by far the very first time that Kwame Nkrumah and his era have been made the main subject of a full-length novel.
Detective Fiction And The African Scene
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Author : Linus Tongwo Asong
language : en
Publisher: African Books Collective
Release Date : 2012
Detective Fiction And The African Scene written by Linus Tongwo Asong and has been published by African Books Collective this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Literary Criticism categories.
From its very inception, detective fiction has enjoyed a great popularity among the young and the old, the learned and the not so learned. By some unfortunate stroke of irony, its respect has not kept pace with its enormous popularity. For over half a century now, it has remained the bane of creative writing. In strict intellectual circles, it is very rare to find people talk defensively and interestingly about the genre. Yet Asong has chosen to do just that. He has stoutly defended the weak by putting up a good case for its continued existence. He has also shown how irresistible key elements of the genre are to even the best respected novelists. Finally he has demonstrated for the first time, how the genre has been domesticated by African writers of very great repute such as Ngugi, Sembene and Lessing. That he has been able to prove that these writers have used techniques of detective fiction is a significant broadening of the horizons for appreciating creative writing in Africa.