Charles Bennett - "The Frog Who Would A Wooing Go"

William Shakespeare - "Der Kaufmann von Venedig"

Anonymous - "The London and Country Brewer"

E. Nesbit - "The Incomplete Amorist"

Annual Bibliography of Commonwealth Literature 2007
This paper argues that discourses of love in Ghanaian market literature for youth offer a view into complex negotiations of agency and empowerment. Drawing on Deborah Durham's notion of youth as "social `shifters'" and Francis Nyamnjoh's conception of the "interconnectedness" of agency, I take Ghanaian market literature as one specific case of how African literature for youth foregrounds questions of continuity and change as African societies enter into increasingly complex global relations. In this literature for youth, received notions of love, often constructed out of impressions from American pop and hip hop music, carry new notions of agency that compete with existing "domesticated" forms. Authors like Ike Tandoh and Evelyn Tay employ discourses of love to offer youth alternative avenues for empowerment in a context of socio-economic disenfranchizement. In a creative process of "straddling", this writing both reveals and reproduces the contradictions that obtain in youth configurations of agency.

Die Mitschuldigen

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Soeller.
Die Laenge bringt die Ferne!

Alcest.
Allein was macht mein Geld?

Soeller.
O Herr, es war aus Not.
Der Spieler peinigte mich Armen fast zu Tod.
Ich wusste keinen Rat, ich stahl und zahlte Schulden.
Da ist das uebrige, ich weiss nicht wieviel Gulden.

Alcest.
Was fort ist, schenk ich Ihm.

Soeller [zum Parterre].
Fuer diesmal waer's vorbei!

Alcest.
Allein ich hoff, Er wird fein hoeflich, still und treu!
Und untersteht Er sich, noch einmal anzufangen -
Dann -
[Er macht ihm das Zeichen des Haengens.]

Soeller.
Nein, das waer zu viel - ein Hahnrei und gehangen!

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