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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.

Barnen ifran Frostmofjaellet

L >> Laura Fitinghoff >> Barnen ifran Frostmofjaellet"Barnen ifran Frostmofjaellet" is a Swedish childrens novel, first
published in 1907. The author Laura Fitinghoff was born in 1848 and
died in 1908. The first printed edition is illustrated with six
paintings by Vicken von Post, who died in 1950. The paintings are
thus still covered by copyright, but the text is in the public domain.


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