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Editorial
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.
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Richard F. Burton: Books
R >> Richard F. Burton First footsteps in East AfricaThe Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 1The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 1The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 2The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 2The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 3The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 3The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 4The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 4The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 5The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 5The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 6The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 6The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 7The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 7To the Gold Coast for GoldTwo Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2 |
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