Richard Jefferies - "Round About a Great Estate"

George Mueller - "A Narrative of Some of the Lord's Dealings with George Mueller"

Gustave Flaubert - "Drie Vertellingen"

Amelia Edith Barr - "A Daughter of Fife"

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.

Book of Old Ballads

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THE BEGGAR'S DAUGHTER OF BEDNALL GREEN

Given from the Percy folio manuscript, with a few additions and
alterations from two ancient printed copies.


BRAVE LORD WILLOUGHBEY

Given from an old black-letter copy.


THE SPANISH LADY'S LOVE

The version of an ancient black-letter copy, edited in part from the
Percy folio manuscript.


GIL MORRICE

The version of this ballad given here was printed at Glasgow in 1755.
Since this date sixteen additional verses have been discovered and added
to the original ballad.


CHILD WATERS

From the Percy folio manuscript, with corrections.


THE BAILIFF'S DAUGHTER OF ISLINGTON

From an ancient black-letter copy in the Pepys' Collection.


THE LYE

By Sir Walter Raleigh. This poem is from a scarce miscellany entitled
_Davison's Poems, or a poeticall Rapsodie divided into sixe books ...
the 4th impression newly corrected and augmented and put into a forme
more pleasing to the reader._ Lond. 1621.



_From "English and Scottish Ballads."_


MAY COLLIN

From a manuscript at Abbotsford in the Sir Walter Scott Collection,
_Scotch Ballads, Materials for Border Minstrelsy._


THOMAS THE RHYMER

_Scotch Ballads, Materials for Border Minstrelsy,_ No. 97,
Abbotsford. From the Sir Walter Scott Collection. Communicated to Sir
Walter by Mrs. Christiana Greenwood, London, May 27th, 1806.


YOUNG BEICHAN

Taken from the Jamieson-Brown manuscript, 1783.


CLERK COLVILL

From a transcript of No. 13 of William Tytler's Brown manuscript.


THE EARL OF MAR'S DAUGHTER

From Buchan's _Ballads of the North of Scotland,_ 1828.


HYND HORN

From Motherwell's manuscript, 1825 and after.


THE THREE RAVENS

_Melismate. Musicall Phansies. Fitting the Court, Cittie and Country
Humours._ London, 1611. (T. Ravenscroft.)


THE WIFE OF USHER'S WELL

Printed from _Ministrelsy of the Scottish Border_, 1802.

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MANDALAY

By Rudyard Kipling.


JOHN BROWN'S BODY


IT'S A LONG WAY TO TIPPERARY

By Jack Judge and Harry Williams.


THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL

By Oscar Wilde.

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