Victor Hugo - "Actes et Paroles, vol. I"

Major A.R. Calhoon - "How to Get on in the World"

Charles Kingsley - "Women and Politics"

Various - "Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882"

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.

The Moving Picture Girls Snowbound

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"I--er--I--what does this mean?" stammered the lawyer, springing to his
feet.

"It means that Dan Merley is a faker!" cried Russ, as the lights were
turned up again, and Mr. Pertell came up from the booth where he had
been working the moving picture machine.

"It means that he is a faker when he says he was injured by the street
car," cried Russ, "and we're going to show these pictures in court if he
persists in the suit. And it means he's a faker when he says Mr. DeVere
owes him five hundred dollars. It means he's a faker from beginning to
end! We've got the proof on the film!" and his voice rang out.

"Oh, Russ!" cried Ruth, and she clasped his hand in delight.

"I--er--I--" stammered Mr. DeVere as he sank into a chair.

"Daddy, you won't have to pay!" exclaimed Alice, joyfully.

"How about that, Mr. Black?" asked Russ of the lawyer. "Do you think
your client will go on with the street car suit?"

"Well, my dear young man, in view of what you have shown me, I--er--I
think not. In fact I know not." The lawyer was beaten and he realized
it.

"And about Mr. DeVere's note?" asked Russ.

The lawyer took out his pocketbook.

"Here is the note," he muttered. "You have beaten us. I presume if we
drop both suits that you will not show these pictures in court?"

"It won't be necessary," said Russ. "If the suits are withdrawn the
pictures will not be shown. But they will be kept--for future
reference," he added significantly.

"I understand," spoke the lawyer. "You are a very clever young man."

"Oh, the young ladies helped me," laughed Russ.

"Good-night," said the lawyer, bowing himself out.

"There you are, Mr. DeVere!" cried Russ, as they were on their way from
the studio. "You'd better destroy that note. It's the only evidence
Merley had, and now you have it back. Tear it up--burn it!"

"I will indeed! I never can thank you enough for securing it for me.
Those moving pictures were a clever idea."

The next day formal notice was sent to Mr. DeVere that the suit against
him had been withdrawn, and Merley had to pay all advance court
charges. The actor would not again be made to pay the five hundred
dollars. The suit against the street car company was also taken out of
court. And Dan Merley and his confederates disappeared for a time. It
seems that Merley went to the woods to hunt as a sort of relief from
having to pose all the while in New York as an injured man. He felt at
home up in that locality, having been there many times before.

"Well," said Mr. Pertell to Mr. DeVere and the girls one day, when he
had called to see them, "I suppose you are ready for more camera work by
this time?"

"What now?" asked Ruth. "Can't you give us something different from what
we have been having?"

"Indeed I can," was his answer. "How would you like to go to Florida?"

"Florida!" the girls cried together. "Oh, how lovely."

"That's answer enough," said the manager. "We leave in a week!"

"I wonder what will happen down there?" asked Alice.

And my readers may learn by perusing the next volume of this series, to
be entitled "The Moving Picture Girls Under the Palms; Or, Lost in the
Wilds of Florida."

"It seems too good to be true," spoke Alice that night, as she and Ruth
were talking over what dresses they would take.

"Doesn't it! Oh, I am just wild to go down South!"

"So am I. I'd like to know what part we're going to."

"Why?"

"Oh, you know those two girls we met in the train. They were going
somewhere near Lake Kissimmee. We might meet them."

"We might," answered Ruth sleepily. "Put out the light, dear, and come
to bed. We will have some busy times, getting ready to go to Florida."

And thus we will take leave of the moving picture girls.




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Transcriber's Notes:

Obvious punctuation errors corrected.

Page 3, "dissappointed" changed to "disappointed". (he never
disappointed)

Page 13, "roles" changed to "roles". (played minor roles)

Page 13, "felt" changed to "left". (left her father's)

Page 22, "went" changed to "want". (want to pay me)

Page 31, "handful" changed to "handful". (handful of snow)

Page 37, "wildy" changed to "wildly". (pawed about wildly)

Page 44, "dollares" changed to "dollars". (hundred dollars means)

Page 45, "seem" changed to "seen". (seen that he)

Page 66, "colonge" changed to "cologne". (spirits of cologne)

Page 101, "Dicken's" changed to "Dickens'". (In Dickens' story)

Page 103, "your" changed to "you". (his coat you)

Page 105, the word "have" was inserted into the text. (could have
happened)

Page 108, "accidently" changed to "accidentally". (accidentally
hit you)

Page 148, "temperment" changed to "temperament". (a different
temperament)

Page 180, "We" changed to "we". (we can't go)

Page 185, "fugutive" changed to "fugitive". (were fugitive slaves)

Page 204, "lense" changed to "lens". (a lens that)

Page 212, the word "spoke" is presumed as the original is smudged.
(spoke the lawyer)

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