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ebook ∣ The Novels of Linus T Asong: A Study in Crime, Punishment, and Dysfunctionality
By Emmanuel Doh
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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.